By the looks of it, you haven't actually got the Firebird Service running, or
it's firewalled off from receiving network connections.

I'm guessing by the absence of the '127.0.0.1' in your connect with IBExpert,
you did a direct filesystem connect to the database file, not the database
server itself.

Take a look at services that are running, and any firewalling that might be
blocking port 3050 from localhost and external hosts.

Nige.

> Hi there,
>
> I download and install FirebirdCS-2.0.3.12~Solaris-sparc.pkg on Sun T1000,
>
> Connect to example database
> /opt/firebird/examples/empbuild/employee.fdb by IBExpert is ok,
>
> but when i try backup this file
>
> gbak -B -T -USER SYSDBA -PAS x -V -Z
> 127.0.0.1:/opt/firebird/examples/empbuild/employee.fdb
> /d1/gdb/employee.bak
>
> each time i have this error:
>
> ...
> gbak: writing data for table SALARY_HISTORY
> gbak: ERROR:Unable to complete network request to host "127.0.0.1".
> gbak: ERROR: Error reading data from the connection.
> gbak: ERROR:gds_$start_request failed
> gbak:Exiting before completion due to errors
> Broken Pipe
>
> also i can't restore any my database backup, errors is same
> gbak: ERROR:Unable to complete network request to host "127.0.0.1".
>
> Can someone help?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Susi
>
>