> 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
>

Figured it out..
For anyone who wants to know....
If you have FB1.5RC1 installed on the same box as an IB server and you want
to use e.g. IBexpert to run equally to both an FB server and an IB
server....
place fbclient.dll (the full client - not the old stub) in the IBExpert
directory and rename it to GDS32.dll. IBexpert and I imagine other tools to
at this stage will always only wnat to work with gds32.dll and it will use
this file instead of the old one possibly in system32, but more importantly,
this new client dll now understands port numbers in the connection string.
So the connection string will be:
servername/portno:drive:\path\filename.ext

if you leave the /portno out, it will default to 3050 and find the IB server
on the servername box. if you configure FB to run on another port e.g. 3051,
then the connection string used with /3051 will connect to the FB service on
the same box voila!

Alan