--- In ib-support@yahoogroups.com, "nitaligavino <Dan.Crea@a...>"
<Dan.Crea@a...> wrote:

> Hi Wayne:
>
> I don't know why my messages keep getting truncated? Maybe I type

to

> much? Here is what I was suggesting:
>
> From your client, I hope Win95 has telnet, try a telnet connection

to

> your server running FB. If the server accepts the connection you
> should see a blank screen with a cursor. If FB is not running or

you

> cannot connect to port 3050 you should see an error

like "connection

> failed."
>

Tried to telnet. Got the error message that connection could not be
establised.

> Also, can you share a folder / directory on the server and access
> this from your client?
>

Yes.

> Can you run your clinet on the server where FB is installed? That

is

> are you able to place your clinet on the server and connect using

the

> string:
> localhost:c:\...
>

Cannot load client onto server.

> Another suggestion would be to create a console application and

call

> gethostbyname(…) to see if this is success or not. Since your
> interbase.log file indicated an error in this call. It may give

more

> detail or possibly be a false positive.
>

Will find out how to do this and try it.

Thanks for your time.
Wayne

> Best regards,
> Dan
>
>
> --- In ib-support@yahoogroups.com, "Wayne Elmore" <hwelmore@k...>
> wrote:
> > Dan, didn't get your suggestions. Hope this doesn't meen 'none'.
> > As for the domain trusts, I've checked to see if any trusts have
> been
> > granted and can find none; assuming I looked in the correct area.
> >
> > Thanks for your help.
> > Wayne
> >
> > ----------
> > From: nitaligavino <Dan.Crea@a...>
> > To: ib-support@yahoogroups.com
> > Subject: [ib-support] Re: Can't connect to server
> > Date: Monday, January 13, 2003 11:13 AM
> >
> > Hi Wayne:
> >
> > Sorry, I could not remember if nslookup was part of Win95 or

not.

> > Anyway, the domain trust may, possibly, be the issue. However

it's

> > difficult to say without being able to "touch" these systems
> myself.
> > To explain, if a client running on domain A wants to talk to a
> > domain, domain B, the client must be granted trust by domain B's
> PDC
> > (primary domain controller ) or BDC ( backup domain

controller ).

> > This is because the client is not a member of domain B. The way I
> > understand it, the client will perform a lookup, IP resolution,

and

> > then contact to the server directly. The server will check the
> > credentials of the client against the PDC / BDC for that domain,
> > domain B, and either allow the connection or reject the
> connection.
> > So if the client running in domain A is not trusted its

credentials

> > will be rejected.
> >
> > Since you are able to ping your server that means that the IP
> > resolution is okay and you can see the server. The server may
> > however be rejecting the connection. The only suggestions that I
> can
> > make are: