--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, "rayholme" <rayholme@y...> wrote:

>
> I have worked with Interbase for a long time. Moved to Friebird a
> couple years back and had problems getting 1.5 to work so stuck to

1.0.3.
<<snip don't know about Udf with Linux - want to know>>

> 2) most strange - cannot get a remote connection to work at all
> Fedora uses xinetd - so I copied the supplied file to
> /etc/xinetd.d/firebird
> tried both HUP and USR2 (then reboot) on xinetd
> all to no avail - netstat does not find a service on 3050
> finally I manually start the daemon (fb_inet_server) from the
> command line and it does not complain (nor do anything)

Sounds network,
try
1) Check cable,
2) Check firewall
3) Check DNS
4) Check xinetd.conf

4) Ping server
5) Telnet to 3050
6) Check libraries on client
7) Scream

mick