--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, Lester Caine <lester@l...>
wrote:

> to_grille wrote:
>
> > *) and again with slashes as listed above...
> > C:\WORK\FIREBIRD1\bin>ISQL -u sysdba -password masterkey
> > Use CONNECT or CREATE DATABASE to specify a database
> > SQL> CONNECT "SERVER1:C:/WORK/FIREBIRD1/examples/EMPLOYEE.FDB";
> > Statement failed, SQLCODE = -902
> >
> > Unable to complete network request to host "SERVER1".
> > -Failed to establish a connection.
> > -The system could not find the environment option that was

entered.

>
> Please take a step back.
> Is this machine actually connected to a network?
> If not, can you try opening a command prompt and trying
>
> ping SERVER1
> and
> ping localhost
>
> If these come back unreachable, then the problem is simply that XP

has

> not created the tcp/ip stuff yet.
> In that case -
>
> CONNECT "C:/WORK/FIREBIRD1/examples/EMPLOYEE.FDB";
>
> should work bypassing tcp/ip
>
> ( I think this is right, my kids laptops have XP and we could not

put

> anything decent on because the drivers are not available for 98SE,

and

> re-installing XP gave problems until the network stuff was

restored )

>
> --
> Lester Caine
> -----------------------------
> L.S.Caine Electronic Services

SERVER1 and localhost are in this case the same physical machine, and
the network is working fine. Both ping's work