Hi,

At April 7, 2004, 07:10, Bill Zwirs wrote:

> Have set up application from client machine to connect to database using TCP
> connection of 'pa-hq-svr-rdc:D:\Pulbrook Air\Sales Ace\Ace.fdb'. This
> brings up the following error message:

> "Unable to complete network request to host 'pa-hq-svr-rdc' failed to
> establish a connection. No connection could be made because the target
> machine actively refused it"

Is there a firewall on the server that doesn't have Firebird port
open(the default port is 3050)? And, make sure that Firebird is
actually running on the server.

> The database administrator states that the folder D:\Pulbrook Air\Sales
> Ace\Ace.fdb is shared from the network server to the workstations and the
> workstations map this share to S:\. Since the application now points to the
> database through the actual drive and not the mapped drive is it still a
> problem by the mere fact that the mapped drive is still there.

That is not the problem.

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Best regards,
Daniel Rail
Senior System Engineer
ACCRA Group Inc. (www.accra.ca)
ACCRA Med Software Inc. (www.filopto.com)