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

> vandy899 wrote / napísal (a):
>
> >--- 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...
> >
> >
> Sorry but both both Easysoft and IbPhoenix say after pressing the Test
> button: "Unable to complete network requeset to "rado\3051". Failed to
> locate host machine." Should it not run only on Windows 2000/XP ?
> Because I am trying on Win 98.
>
> Thanks. Rado
>
>
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Sorry, my bad, format is server/port:database