Thanks. Got it all working. I had to change the firebird.conf file to tell
it to support gds_db TCP/IP. Once I did this, and restarted the database,
it worked perfectly.

Again, thanks to everyone for your assistance on this. I'm building my
databases now. This rocks!!!!

Myles

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Myles Wakeham
Director of Engineering
Tech Solutions Inc.
Scottsdale, Arizona USA
Phone (480) 451-7440
Web: www.techsol.org

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alexandre Benson Smith [mailto:iblist@...]
> Sent: Saturday, May 29, 2004 11:39 AM
> To: firebird-support@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [firebird-support] [REPOST] FB1.5 Linux - Install Docs?
>
> Myles Wakeham wrote:
>
> >OK, I got it working. I had installed the wrong server version. Anyway
> now
> >the ps is showing the correct FBSERVER, etc. processes.
> >
> >But still, no port is exposed to my other computer for connection. This
> >Linux system was installed with no firewall protection, so I don't think
> its
> >stopping it. How can I test for the port broadcast?
> >
> >===========================
> >Myles Wakeham
> >Director of Engineering
> >Tech Solutions Inc.
> >Scottsdale, Arizona USA
> >Phone (480) 451-7440
> >Web: www.techsol.org
> >
> >
> >
> Myles,
>
> [root@server root]# netstat -a
> Active Internet connections (servers and established)
> Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State
> tcp 0 0 *:cvspserver *:* LISTEN
> tcp 0 0 *:printer *:* LISTEN
> tcp 0 0 localhost.localdo:mysql *:* LISTEN
> tcp 0 0 *:gds_db *:* LISTEN
> the last line shows that the port gds_db (or 3050 in default
> instalation) are listenning for network connections, what do you get if
> you type the command:
>
> netstat -a
>
> Did you tried to connect from a remote machine ?
> Did you get some error ?
> What error ?
>
> see you !
>
>
> --
>
> Alexandre Benson Smith
> Development
> THOR Software e Comercial Ltda.
> Santo Andre - Sao Paulo - Brazil
> www.thorsoftware.com.br
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