Steve Wiser wrote:

> So in summary (some assumptions):
>
> 1) You have Xen installed and some distro of linux running as a VM
> 2) You have xinetd installed and running
> 3) You installed Firebird classic
> 4) You restarted xinetd and see that port 3050 is listening (netstat -an
> | grep 3050)
>
> You should really try to use isql now (/opt/firebird/bin) to try to
> connect to a sample fdb on the server and see what (if any) error
> messages you get now.

Make sure you use "localhost" in the path in order to use TCP/IP:

isql localhost:/path/to/db.fdb

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