>
> Jason,
>
> The server is a test machine with minimal traffic. It runs apache, mysql,
> samba and now firebird - but myself and one other person are really the only
> people who log in for development testing and playing <g>. We have a mix of
> clients (Win 98/ME and 2K) but I'm currently only testing FB against the win
> 98 machine for personal convenience(although the Win ME and 2k clients had
> the same problem).
>
> There is no firewall or backup stuff running that could conflict - so I'm a
> bit stumped.
>
> Regards
>
> Martyn
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: news@... [mailto:news@...]On Behalf Of Jason
> Chapman (JAC2)
> Sent: 21 April 2002 12:34
> To: ib-support@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [ib-support] Connect to Firebird from Windows
>
>
> I'm not convinced the two entries are connected aty all (104 and server
> abend).
>
> What is the server used for and how many users are in past 20:00.
>
> Is there any kind of house keeping going on after hours, e.g. backup (IB or
> OS), sweeps, defrag, whatever?
>
> if the DB is corrupt, you can get abends during the backup.
>
>
> Does it happen at the same time every night?
>
>
> "Frank Ingermann" <frank@...> wrote in message
> news:3CC17065.3091BCD8@......
> > Hi Martyn,
> >
> > the errors you see in the interbase.log are inet errors. They don't come
> from
> > the Firebird engine but from the network layer and are simply passed
> through
> > into the log file. From the errno.h file:
> >
> > errno 104 = Connection reset by peer
> >
> > This is the same error as 10054 on Windoze - from winsock.pas:
> > {$EXTERNALSYM WSAECONNRESET}
> > WSAECONNRESET = (WSABASEERR+54);
> >
> > It happens in a Win network when e.g. W95 clients are simply turned off
> > or the tcp stack crashed. but that doesn't cause the following error
> > (at least i've never seen this as a result of 10054...) :
> >
> > > Acer.kbs (Client) Fri Apr 19 20:42:46 2002
> > > /opt/interbase/bin/ibguard: bin/ibserver terminated abnormally
> (-1)
> >
> > this indicates the FB server really crashed. You could try Googling Groups
> > on "104 inet interbase" or similar, you'll find a lot of messages on the
> > topic. Some of them point to outdated rpms in a linux distro, but i know
> > definetly too little about inetd / xinetd and the like to be of any more
> > help here
>
> >
> > - now where are the Linux experts? ;-)
> >
> > btw you wrote:
> > > I created a test database on windows and ftp'd it to my home directory
> on
> > > the server - the result was the same.
> >
> > in any case you should create a transportable backup, then ftp it and
> > restore it on linux. This is the "official" way...
> >
> > ..and a last "wild guess": do you by any chance have a firewall running
> > on either machine that blocks the 3050/tcp port ???
> >
> > regards & hth,
> > fingerman
> >
> > P.S. though this probably won't help with your specific problem, you
> > should really try to use other tools like WISQL from the client side.
> > As a rule of thumb, when i'm having any kind of trouble with a
> > certain tool, first thing i do is use a different tool that preferrably
> > uses a different Component Suite to access the server. Some choices
> > are: IBExpert PE (FIBPlus afaik), WISQL (direct API), IB_SQL or Marathon
> > (IBObjects), IBConcole (IBX). All of them are free, and each one has
> > some advantages over the other. This greatly helps in identifying the
> > real source of a problem.
> >
> > -------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > when parsers parse, and compilers compile, then why don't objects object?
> >
> > fingerbirdy - fingerman's door to Firebird
> > http://www.fingerbird.de
> >
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