Hi Sam,

I am not sure what you have tried to date.

From the client,

Can you ping NSTI-2

It doesn't have to respond (Firewall might drop pings), but it needs
to be able to resolve to an IP address or you have some network issue
to figure out.

If you can see the IP address, try to connect to the firebird port on
the server from the client. This port is normally 3050.

In a Dos box on the client,

telnet NSTI-2 3050

If the screen goes blank, this is good. If it says connection refused
or failed, you have a firewall blocking that port or the service is
not running.

You then need to make sure the user the firebird service is installed
as has security permissions to the folders it needs. On a side note,
you may want to make use of aliases.conf so you don't have to tell
the clients the file structure of the server.

Post how these steps go:

Adam

--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, "delphigurusam" <shunt@n...>
wrote:

> SS, XP Pro host, XP Home client. FB1.5.2 build 4731
> peer-to-peer
> not domain name services network
> Delphi 7 Ent, IBPhoenix ODBC driver, ADO
>
> if, when using TCP/IP communications, you must connect to a host

that

> has a known IP address and the host's IP address is dynamic, and the
> client can "see" the host's computer NAME in "My network Places" and
> can traverse all dir's there, except Program Files..., what does one
> do to create an odbc datasource name like (NSTI-2 is the host

computer

> name)
> NSTI-2:C:\Program Files\AT6Test\MyDatabase.fdb?
> The odbc manager returns the error:
>
> "Unable to complete network request to host "NSTI-2".
> Failed to locate host machine.
> The specified name was not found in the hosts file or Domain Namne
> Services.
>
> I have read Helen's book and don't know where to go.
> All attempts to identify NSTI-2 in the hosts file have failed.
>
> Thx in advance to all for your time and sharing your knowledge.
> Sam H.