At 12:18 AM 1/09/2006, you wrote:

>A beta installation at one of our client's facility is failing to
>connect. After consulting with them, their IT department opened the
>3050 port on the firewall to outgoing traffic. This has not solved
>the problem.

Has it been opened to incoming traffic too?

>They have copied the application's exe file, fbclient.dll, and
>gds32.dll files into a single directory that they launch from.
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>My application opens, the user puts in his user id and password, but
>then gets the following error message as the application attempts to
>connect to Firebird:
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>ISC ERROR CODE:335544721
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>ISC ERROR MESSAGE:
>Unable to complete network request to host "###.###.###.###".
>Failed to establish connection.
>No connection could be made because the target machine actively
>refused it.
>*************************************
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>Note: I replaced the IP address with ###.###.###.### for security
>reasons. Thae actual error message provides the IP address.
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>Beta tests at other locations have worked fine. Any sugggestions?
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