If you have a software firewall on your workstation you might try
opening port 3050 for outbound connections. Likewise, port 3050 needs
to be open on the server for inbound connections. 3050 is the default
port #, it might have been changed in the Firebird configuration file.


Alan McDonald wrote:

> Have you got the full server installed? or is this new app running
> against the embedded server instance?
> Btw... what is the name of his application?
> thanks alan
>
> On 1/6/10, rennekon <kennerinmd@...> wrote:
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>> I work in a university library that recently purchased an application that
>> uses a firebird database as its backbone. I'm in charge of the
>> webdevelopment side of things but am having issues connecting to the
>> database from anywhere other than localhost. I consistently get the error
>> "connection rejected by remote interface" from flamerobin and my webpages
>> just hang when I try to connect using ib_connect in php.
>>
>> Does anyone have any guidance on what the cause of the problem could be? I
>> looked around on google quite a bit but most of the related issues seemed to
>> be related to having too many connections to the server (which isn't
>> applicable).
>>
>> I appreciate any help!
>>
>> --Kenner
>>
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