Subject Re: [firebird-support] Failed to establish a connection
Author Helen Borrie
At 05:55 AM 10/02/2005 +0000, you wrote:


>Hi there,
>
>At a client site, I have installed Firebird 1.0 , IBConsole 1.0 in a
>Windows Server 2003 SBS platform. I then made sure both Firebird
>Guardian Service and Firebird Server started before starting up
>IBConsole, but the following error occured when I tried to diagnose
>the connection throught TCP/IP in both Local Server or Remote Server:
>
>Error - unable to complete network request to host "RDSEVER".
>Failed to establish a connection.
>No connection could be made because the target machine actively
>refused it.
>
>So I tried "telnet rdserver 3050" in the command prompt, but no
>connection established either.
>
>However, I have no problem in our test lab with a Windows Server 2003
>SE platform. Is this a window platform problem? Any suggestion how to
>resolve it?

It's probably that you haven't opened port 3050 in your firewall.

And make sure the server name is spelt correctly...

,/.hb