Check you /etc/hosts file. You should see 2 lines (at least). 1 for
127.0.0.1 to localhost and another for your server with its real ip
address.

-steve

On Tue, 2005-06-14 at 21:49 +0200, Milan Babuskov wrote:

> marcoaureliocastro wrote:
> > I have an aplication written in Delphi 2005 and Firebird Provider
> > 1.7. I works ok in Windows but in Linux (acessing the same database)
> > it does not work. The database as the directory is associated to the
> > user firebird with chmod 777
>
> Not a very good idea. Better use 700.
>
> >. The messages are:
> >
> > FirebirdSql.Data.Firebird.FbException: Unable to complete network
> > request to host "localhost".
>
> It looks like Firebird server isn't running. Can you connect via isql
> or some
> other tool like FlameRobin or IBAccess?
>
> isql localhost:/database_directory/database.fdb -user sysdba -pass 123
>
> P.S. Apache hasn't got anything to do with this problem.
>


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