have you ever connected using tcp/ip?
I have also encounter this. finally, I rebooted it.

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On Wed, 28 Jul 2004 00:35:42 -0000
"rogervellacott" <rvellacott@...> wrote:

rogervellacott> I stopped and started the Firebird service on a Windows 2000 server,
rogervellacott> and can no longer connect using tcp/ip, even from the server itself.
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rogervellacott> Communications diagnostics shows the error
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rogervellacott> "No connection could be made because the target machine actively
rogervellacott> refused it."
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rogervellacott> I have gds_db 3050/tcp in the services file.
rogervellacott> I can ping the server name ok.
rogervellacott> I can connect using NetBeui ok.
rogervellacott> I have uninstalled and re-installed firebird.
rogervellacott> So what's the problem?
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