Good to hear that!!
Dan


--- In ib-support@yahoogroups.com, "Wayne Elmore" <hwelmore@k...>
wrote:

> Hi Dan, me again. If you recall I've been having problems

connection to my

> server using Firebird 1.0. Well sometime ago in answer to one of my
> postings someone asked how I had installed Firebird. I stated that I
> installed it onto the server from my client machine. Well after

that I

> still had problems and many postings after that. I almost gave up.

But, I

> decided to install Firebird onto the server AT the server.

Everything works

> great now. I was naive enough to think installation could be made

from the

> client. But nobody picked up on that one small item. Anyway, I

wanted to

> thank you and everyone else who tried to help me. I'm sure you'll be
> hearing from me further when I finally get into transfering the

desktop

> databases to client/server and using SQL.
>
> Thanks again
> 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: