Port 3050 is a standard port and should not be used by any program except
Interbase or Firebird. 'msdtc.exe' is supposed to be a Microsoft program and
I do not think it would try to use 3050. You might want to check for
viruses.
Marv

On 10/12/05, Reinhard Gunacker <r.gunacker@...> wrote:
>
> I hope it works.
>
> Thank you for your help!
>
>
> Thomas Steinmaurer wrote:
> > Hello Reinhard,
> >
> >> I use Firebird 1.5 on several Windows 2000 servers (some of then
> running
> >> MSSQL and Exchange).
> >> Today, after restarting a server, i could not connect to the database
> >> via network. I recognized that the process 'system' was using port 3050.
>
> >> After a second restart the process 'msdtc.exe' used it. These processes
>
> >> start before firebird so starting the firebird server fails because of
> >> the used port.
> >>
> >> I found out, that this processes use dynamic ports which changes on
> >> every reboot. So rebooting a third time resolved the problem.
> >>
> >> Does anybody know how to prevent Windows from using port 3050?
> >
> > For a range of ports, check this out:
> > http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;812873
> >
> >
>
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