Thanks Paul.
Well I installed it in win 98 using a 'firebird' installer from the
website so I assume that it will be set-up. But yes the server is
running on both machines.

Now there is one other bit of info in that I had many months ago set
up Linux on both machines. But this is now abandoned and derilict.
Could this have got in the way of the windows install ?

How can I tell if the windows install has somehow connected the
Firebird to the port ?
All further help welcomed I have wasted two days on this so far !

regards Dave

--- In ib-support@y..., Paul Reeves <paul@f...> wrote:
> comesailing@b... wrote:
> >
> > Thanks again. Since my last message I have re-installed the
network
> > adaptors on boh machines, and re-setup the network. But from each
to
> > the other when I use the firebird comm diagnaostics I can ping,
but
> > if I try service 21 or 3050 or gds_db I get the message
> > 'socket for connection obtained' followed after a good while by
> > ' socket error #10060'.
>
>
> This error indicates that the appropriate server is not listening
on the
> relevant port. Do you have ibserver.exe running as an application?
>
>
> Paul
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