--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, Radovan Bukoci <rado@a...> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Please help me with this problem:
>
> - on my home machine is running FB, on port 3050(hopefully)
> - thru Putty, I am tunneling my port 3051 to my office server, port
> 3050, where is another FB running
> - i would like to be able to connect to both servers at the same time,
> that's why I'm using port 3051.
> - I would like to specify a ODBC connection like

"localhost:3051:alias",

> but it doesn't work - Test returns error
> "Unable to complete network request to host " localhost". Failed to
> establish a connection. Unknown
> Win32 error 10061".
> ( i must say, that I shut down the local server before this test, to
> be sure that I am connectiong to the remote server, not the local).
>
> (when I was tunneling local port 3050, I was able to conect to remote
> server, but then again, I don't know how to connect to local server)
>
> please help me to setup this. (if this is possible to set up at all).
> I am using:
> - ODBC driver Easysoft 1.0.70 or IBPhoenix 1.2
> - MS Access 2.0, 95, 97
>
> or please advice me any other way to make this run.
>
> Thank you. Rado

I'm fairly certain the format is server\port:database...

Cheers,

Michael