Steffen Bisgaard wrote:

>In the ODBC setup, I use this as the path to the remote database:
>
>2000server:Firebird:/database.gdb
>
>

Try
2000server:D:\Firebird\database.gdb
instead.

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

You cannot use a shared folder to access databases.

>
>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.
>
>

I guess it tells the server (2000server) to connect with a database
firebird:/database.gdb.
Since "firebird:" is obviously no volume-name either the server or the
client then tries to find a server of that name.

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Magnus