Sorry yes i forgot later versions of fedora don't even have xinetd installed. Installed it and all working fine now thanks

--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, Philippe Makowski <makowski@...> wrote:
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> 2011/1/18 crizz11 <crizz11@...>
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> > ok thanks for your help, that seemed to work. The dabase resored fine with no errors. I can connect to it using isql locally and look at tables. Now i need help on connecting to it remotely. I can ping the linux(fedora core 14) server from a remote win32 client but if i try to telnet to port 3050 i get a connection refused message. I have added port 3050 to the firewall. If i try to telnet from the server to port 3050 i also get connection refused.
> Classic ?
> is xinetd running ?
> check files in ls -la /tmp/firebird/
> if firebird is not the owner, then delete them
>