Hi Helen,
 
The 51160 port is not the firebird port, it is a port used to connect to a virtual machine. If you had several virtual machines, you´d use a different port to communicate to each one.
For example, I connect to the virtual machine -not the database- with remote desktop using   scadcam.cloudapp.net:51165, then you give the windows account name and password. With that you have a virtual Windows Server 2008.
Then I go to cmd shell and firebird folder and start    isql
Once inside isql, can connect with      
connect employees        or with      
connect localhost:employees       or with    
connect localhost/3050:employees   (I´m using the default firebird port).
 
That´s why, I think, 
 
scadcam.cloudapp.net/51160:employees  
 
does not work in this case.
 
Regards,
Hector


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From: Helen Borrie <helebor@...>
To: firebird-support@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Friday, September 7, 2012 2:55 PM
Subject: Re: [firebird-support] hostname:databasename



 

At 08:35 AM 8/09/2012, scadcam2004 wrote:

>Hi,
>Hope somebody can help me.
>Is it possible to use other than ":" to separate hostname and database name?
>My problem is this:
>I just started a project using a Microsoft Azure virtual machine in the cloud that will host a firebird database.
>To access the virtual machine you need to give a url plus port number. Like this:
>scadcam.cloudapp.net:51160 This would be the hostname.
>But when trying to access the database with scadcam.cloudapp.net:51160:employees, firebird reads up to the first ":" leaving out the port number needed to access the host.
>Is there a workaround?

scadcam.cloudapp.net/51160:employees is the correct TCP/IP syntax when using a non-standard port. This isn't a workaround, it's the external standard for TCP/IP connection.
Also locate the parameter
#RemoteServicePort = 3050
in firebird.conf on the server, delete the '#' marker and change the port number to 51160.

I don't know whether your Microsoft Azure thing recognises external standards, though. If this doesn't work, your best bet would be to contact Microsoft support about it.

If you are using events, you will also need to open a specific port for event traffic and set the RemoteAuxPort parameter in firebird.conf.

./hb

>Regards,
>Héctor Ríos Mendoza
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