Helen, I will try to do things you and the other people told, and then share
my experience. What know I would like to know is what are your suggestions
for accessing to FB from long distance. And I would like to give a few
explanation for my project:

This will be a sales and distrubition management program. The client program
will be installed to salesman's laptop's who are travelling accross the
country for taking orders. And each night they should connect to server and
post their orders to server, update price lists and stock levels on their
laptop (seems like a small replication). For such a project what would be
your suggestions?

TIA

Best Regards
Cagatay Tengiz

-----Original Message-----
From: Helen Borrie [mailto:helebor@...]
Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2002 3:39 AM
To: ib-support@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [ib-support] Connecting to a remote server using phone line


At 09:28 PM 26-01-02 +0200, Cagatay Tengiz wrote:

>Hi list,
>
>How can I connect to a remote server using phone line for more

explanation

>my scenario is something like that : My client computer dials a number

which

>is connected to server, server hangs up the line and my client computer
>connects to database.
>
>Is it possible, if so is there any documentation about this, if there is
>where I can find'em?
>
>In fact I really do not know if this is a pure FB realted question but I
>could not find anywhere else to ask.
>
>PS : I'm using D6, IBO, FB RC2 and my sever is on windows

Here's how you do it with simple dialup (unmoderated TCP/IP):

In the Server property of your connection string, put the domain name of
the destination network, e.g. dnetwork.com.

In the Path property, put the location of the database with respect to the
system on which the server and database are located. This MUST be a
physical location, not a share or a drive mapping.

The connection string will look like this:
dnetwork.com:c:\datapath\myDB.gdb

In the HOSTS file on the client machine (in winnt\system32\etc on
NT/win2k, or in windows dir on 95/98/ME) make an entry for the server:

nnn.nnn.nnn.nnn dnetwork.com

If there is no HOSTS file, make one by copying hosts.SAM and renaming the
copy HOSTS.

After updating the HOSTS file, test the connection with ping.

You can also use Windows networking (NetBEUI) on a dialup connection if it
is set up at the server and client. For more information, see the Network
section of the OpGuide.pdf manual.

The destination server must have port 3050 open and listening. If the
server has firewall protection, you will need to arrange this with the
network administrator at the server end.

Don't expect miracles of performance across a dialup connection. It's not
the recommended way to operate database service across a WAN.

regards,
Helen


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