Helen Borrie wrote:

> At 01:57 AM 23/07/2006, you wrote:
>
>>Hello all,
>>
>>I thought I would post this to the forums for anyone using Firebird on
>>Windows with Codecharge or other IDEs.
>>
>>The link to the support case is here:
>>http://support.yessoftware.com/usrCaseResponses.asp?case_id=983922141&em\
>>ail=david@...
>><http://support.yessoftware.com/usrCaseResponses.asp?case_id=983922141&e\
>>mail=david@...>
>
> The link doesn't seem to be accessible by non-members.
>
>
>>My question for the Firebird team, is related to the last comment in
>>this case, why would I manually have to add the gds_db 3050/tcp entry
>>to the SERVICES file in Windows.
>>
>>It is funny because IBExpert had not problem connecting without it, but
>>the IDE did.
>>
>>Is this something that Firebird should add on install? Or is this a
>>Codecharge issue? Any feedback would be appreciated.
>
>
> It looks like a Codecharge issue (it's not a Firebird error
> message). It does depend on version, though. While Fb 1.5 and later
> default the host gds_db port to 3050 (thus making the Services entry
> optional) the older ones (Fb 1.0.x and Interbase) require it. The
> relevant installers behave accordingly.
>
> (See the v.1.5.3 release notes for info about how you can configure
> it to a different port).
>
>
>>PS: this is using PHP/Apache/Firebird on Windows
>
>
> If you don't get any more answers on this list (or even if you do)
> you could post a message to the firebird-php list to check whether it
> might be an issue with the PHP driver version you have.
>
> It would also be interesting to check whether CC accepts a TCP
> connection string that includes the host port:
>
> myhost/3050:c:\databases\mydb.fdb
>
> ./heLen
>
>
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