This has me worried. I downloaded a file off the IB Phoenix web site that I
presumed was Firebird.

You're now saying that it's not?

Same question as before - how do I know what I'm running?

At 08:46 PM 5/8/2003 +1000, you wrote:

>At 03:19 PM 8/05/2003 +1000, you wrote:
> > > servername/3051:c:\path\filename.fdb
> > >
> > > heLen
> > >
> >
> >Helen,
> >Are you sure about this?
> >I can connect with this
> >shortblack:c:\program files\firebird15\security.fdb
> >(which uses IB6.02 server present on the box)
> >I can't connect with
> >shortblack/3050:c:\program files\firebird15\security.fdb
> >because the response is that service 3050/tcp is undefined
> >but of course it is since I use IB on this box all the time.
>
>Hmm, but IB doesn't support this connection format, it's a Firebird feature.
>
>
> >I cannot connect with
> >shortblack/3051:c:\program files\firebird15\security.fdb
> >either (same message)
> >using WI_SQL
>
>Same reason. WISQL is an IB 5.x client. Try it with IB_SQL or another
>client that supports ODS 10.
>
>Still, I'm not clear what your setup is. If you have the IB 6.x gds32.dll
>on the client then it won't do stuff that was added to
>Firebird. Presumably you have double-checked the client libs that are on
>your connecting client.
>
>Clients as well as servers need to have the port defined in
>($system)\drivers\etc\services , so I suppose you would have sthg like this:
>
>gds_db 3050/tcp # Interbase Server
>gds_db 3051/tcp # Firebird Server
>
>For Firebird, if the entry is missing, the server will broadcase and the
>clients will listen on port 3050.
>
>I don't know whether the service identifier was changed from gds_db to sthg
>else in 1.5. Firebird-devel (or the 1.5 release notes) would be the right
>place to check up on that.
>
>heLen
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