Thanks for the answer,

But Firebird is working. I belive so that my wrong configuration is
in the database connection: it is:

Server=localhost;database=/home/DataBase.gdb;User=sysdba;Password=masterkey;Dialect=3

Can be my mistake here? It works in Windows platform.

Thanks,

Marco Castro

--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, Milan Babuskov <milanb@k...>
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 then
> > 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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