Thanks a lot. It worked.
I installed xinetd first followed by firebird.
Thanks!

--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, Helen Borrie <helebor@...>
wrote:

>
> At 12:58 PM 13/09/2007, you wrote:
> >Hello.
> >
> >I installed FirebirdCS-2.0.1.1.12855-0.i686.tar.gz in Ubuntu 6.06.
> >I opened a root shell and followed the instructions from the
> >installation notes.
> >
> >I got an error when I excute the following command as indicated in
> >the installation notes.
> >
> >connect localhost:employee.fdb;
> >Statement failed, SQLCODE = -902
> >Unable to complete network request to host "localhost".
> >- Failed to establish a connection.
> >- Connection refused
> >
> >I tried using:
> >connect 127.0.0.1:employee.fdb;
> >connect 127.0.0.1:employee;
> >connect localhost:/opt/firebird/examples/empbuild/employee.fdb;
> >connect 127.0.0.1:/opt/firebird/examples/empbuild/employee.fdb;
> >
> >and these still didn't work.
> >
> >I tried the following commands and it worked:
> >
> >connect employee.fdb;
> >-- or --
> >connect employee;
>
> ????
>
> >But I want to connect thru TCP/IP connection string.
> >Any idea on what I have missed?
>
> Is xinetd running? If not, it needs to be. And you will have to
> supply a proper file path to the database file: just the file

name

> on its own won't do it for a remote connection.
>
> By the way, were you aware that Ubuntu is Debian under the
> hood? Debian has its own rules about many things. If you find you
> have showstopper problems with installing or running the

mainstream

> Linux package, you should problably visit the Debian site and try

to

> pick up a .deb package for Firebird.
>
> >I wanted to use TCP/IP connection string because later on I want

to

> >connect from a Windows remote client to Firebird database in

Ubuntu

> >using ODBC.
>
> Well, you'll have the same problem from any remote client if you
> don't supply a proper connection string...and no remote client
> (including one using local loopback) can connect if xinetd isn't

running.

>
> ./hb
>