This service file is on the server or on the client computers?

2008/5/13 Thomas Steinmaurer <ts@...>:

> > I'm having a problem when connecting to a remote firebird server.
> > The server is listening at the default port (3050), so, I don't have to
> > specify the port number on my connection string when I try to attach to
> a
> > database, do I?
> >
> > The problem is that I can't attach to a remote database (it works fine
> for
> > local databases..) if I don't specify the port number (remember, the
> server
> > is listening at the default port). I have this issue on a computer
> running
> > Windows Vista and in another one running XP, but there are other
> computers
> > running Vista and XP that work fine. The server in all of these cases is
> > running on a Windows 2003 computer.
> >
> > This is not an issue of the library used to access the database since I
> have
> > this issue with ISQL, IBExpert and on Delphi with dbExpress and Zeos.
> >
> > The sever version is 2.0
>
> Is there anything obvious at the client, especially in:
>
> - firebird.conf, or
> - %windows%\system32\drivers\etc\services
>
> You could check with e.g. TCPView which port the client tries to use for
> connecting to the server.
>
> --
> Best Regards,
> Thomas Steinmaurer
> LogManager Series - Logging/Auditing Suites supporting
> InterBase, Firebird, Advantage Database, MS SQL Server and
> NexusDB V2
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> http://www.upscene.com
>
>

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