Thank you for the reply.

I used the ip address of the host machine and got the same result. I can ping it. I verified the IP address is correct.

Brooks

-----Original Message-----
From: firebird-support@yahoogroups.com [mailto:firebird-support@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Helen Borrie
Sent: Wednesday, June 01, 2011 9:04 PM
To: firebird-support@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [firebird-support] ODBC connection to remote database

At 03:13 AM 2/06/2011, Brooks Norton wrote:

>After my original success connecting, now I can no longer connect from my PC.
>
>I use the following connection string:
>AIO-INSPECTION:C:\INSPECTOR\DB\MIRTEC_SVR.FDB
>
>I have confirmed and reconfirmed the path is correct.
>
>When doing a test connect from the Windows ODBC Administrator I get the error:
>Open Database ‘AIO-INSPECTION:C:\INSPECTOR\DB\MIRTEC_SVR.FDB’ failed.
>
>Where else can I look for the problem?

Try to test the theory that it's that hyphen in the hostname that's causing grief: replace the hostname with the IP address of the host machine.

./hb





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