saulius_vabalas wrote:

>Hi guys,
>
>Just installed Firebird SS version 1.5 on linux box with Mandrake 9.
>If I start firebird with root user - everything works. I can connect
>locally or remotelly to employee.fdb with isql just fine. But as soon
>as I change user back to firebird and restart fb server, can not
>connect with isql anymore. Every time get error:
>
>Statement failed, SQLCODE = -923
>connection rejected by remote interface
>
>firebird.log file has following entry:
>
>server (Server) Sat May 8 11:06:02 2004
> SERVER/process_packet: connection rejected for root
>
>hosts.equiv file has localhost and server names listed. Seems to me I
>bumped into some rights issue here. Does firebird needs to access
>some libraries it does not have rights to? I even created and set
>separate tmp directory for firebird with all rights, but it did not
>help.
>
>Anybody has some ides what to look at next?
>
>Thanks,
>Saulius
>
>

hi,

try this

do you have this entry in etc/services

gds_db 3050/tcp

and does firebird user rights to acces security.fdb???

I'm running firebird on mandrake for LOOOONG time without bigger problems.

Pavol STAREK