There is no good reason to confuse an already confused person with the task of
defining a name lookup for a machine.

Simply use the IP address of the database server, EX:

192.168.1.200:/path/to/db

Helen Borrie wrote:

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>>Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 21:07:40 -0000
>>From: "george_s_du" <george_s_du@...>
>>To: Helen Borrie <helebor@...>
>>Subject: Re: linux installation
>>
>>Hellen:
>>
>>I have a same problem in the connection even I followed your
>>instruction in your book (The Firebird Book) and the solution in the
>>user group. When I tried to connect the database on Linux from
>>Windows using isql tool, I got an error "Failed - Unable to complete
>>network request to host "LinuxServer". Failed to establish a
>>connection. A socket operation was attempted to an unreachable host."
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>>It seems that it is a network problem. However, I have no problem to
>>ping the Linux server.
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>>Any idea?
>>
>>Thanks.
>>
>>George Du
>>
>>--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, Helen Borrie <helebor@t...>
>>wrote:
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>>>At 10:58 AM 16/11/2005 +0000, you wrote:
>>>
>>>>Installed firebird on linux server.
>>>>Trying to connect via a windows workstation.
>>>>please advice.
>>>>require to run a delphi application with database on linux
>>>
>>>hostname:/data/mydb.fdb
>>>
>>>where "hostname" is the name of the Linux server. You will need a
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>>hosts
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>>>file entry in the Windows client (c:\windows\system32
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>>\drivers\etc\hosts):
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>>>123.456.789.1 hostname
>>>
>>>(again, substituting the Linux machine's real host name)
>>>
>>>./heLen
>>>
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