vandy899 wrote / napísal (a):

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>>>>- 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 sametime,
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>>>>that's why I'm using port 3051.
>>>>- I would like to specify a ODBC connection like
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>>>"localhost:3051:alias",
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>>>>but it doesn't work - Test returns error
>>>> "Unable to complete network request to host " localhost".
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>>>I'm fairly certain the format is server\port:database...
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>>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.
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>> Thanks. Rado
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>Sorry, my bad, format is server/port:database
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Thanks, it works now.

BTW, there is is fine Help for IB Phoenix ODBC driver, with examples,
but this example is not mentioned there (That's why I needed to ask
here). If anyone who can add this inromation there is reading this
discussion, I am kindly asking him to do so (best way is to add another
example).

Thank You. Rado


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