Hallo All,

I am new to this group, and this will be my first posting. Hope I am in the right place.

I am using Firebird 1.5.0, and everything is well. Problem relates to ODBC setup.

I am using this odbc driver:
http://surfnet.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/firebird/Firebird_ODBC_1.2.0.69-Win32.exe

It works when I install and test on the same machine that firebird is on (Windows 2000 Server).

The gdb file is located in D:/Firebird/database.gdb on the 2000 server.

In the ODBC setup, I use this as the path to the remote database:

2000server:Firebird:/database.gdb

(which I got by simply browsing to the 2000 server - the 'Firebird' folder is shared.


When I try to connect from another machine I constantly get the following error:

"Unable to complete network request to host "Firebird".
Failed to locate host machine.
The specified name was not found in the hosts file or Domain Name Services."

This seems simple enough.
I tried to add "10.2.0.10 2000sever" to the host file, but same error.

The question is, why is it trying to locate a host called "Firebird" this is simply a folder on the 2000server, not a machine.

Can anybody help me in the right direction?

Stef


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