hmmm
program files
notwithstanding that XP home may not provide the tcp service
I don't think it's good practice to have directory names with spaces - not
saying it's not going to work but certainly some java based connection
attempts will fail
Alan

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joe Martinez [mailto:joe@...]
> Sent: Wednesday, 4 December 2002 10:51
> To: ib-support@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [ib-support] Can't connect to server
>
>
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> >What do you mean by "The client is connecting using the machine name"
> >? The client should be connecting using the machine's TCP/IP
> host name and
> >the TCP/IP connection string format.
> >
> >Let's say the tcp/ip host name is Momma and the database on the server
> >machine is at d:\data\maindb.fdb ---
> >
> >The client should get a ping response from
> >
> > ping Momma
> >
> >and the application should connect with:
> >
> > Momma:d:\data\maindb.fdb
>
> Yes, that's exactly what I meant. That's how it's set up.
>
> The server's name is "sales".
>
> ping sales
>
> get's a ping response.
>
> Connecting with:
>
> sales:c:\program files\trs6\data\data600.fdb
>
> gives them the Unknown Win32 Error 10061.
>
> -Joe
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