Hi Sean, Helen, Mark

Finally got it to work. It is easy, once you see endpoints in Azure.
Just had to add an endpoint for my virtual machine in Windows Azure Dashboard. Specify endpoint with public port 3050 and private port 3050. I suppose is some kind of proxy.
With that, the virtual machine behaves like a normal remote host and you can use regular  
"connect scadcam.cloudapp.net:employees"
Thanks for your interest.
Hector Rios



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From: HECTOR RIOS <scadcam2004@...>
To: "firebird-support@yahoogroups.com" <firebird-support@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, September 8, 2012 3:53 PM
Subject: Re: [firebird-support] hostname:databasename


 
Hi Sean,
 
I´m just beginning with this cloud thing. It would seem to me like a hassle to do that if the Azure guys wanted to make it easy. I expected like a normal remote host, but maybe you are right about having to login/open connection to access cloud resources, even a database server.
At first I tought I could get by with just hostname:databasename but "sintax" is not helping. Have to research if the Microsoft SQL Server guys dont have to login to know if it is a real "sintax" problem.
Not sure how to do that about the proxy but sounds logical. 
 
Regards,
Hector Rios


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From: "Leyne, Sean" <Sean@...>
To: "firebird-support@yahoogroups.com" <firebird-support@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, September 8, 2012 3:09 PM
Subject: RE: [firebird-support] hostname:databasename


 

Hector,

> Sounds nice but still cannot connect with
> scadcam.cloudapp.net/51160:employees
> Is this / to indicate the port firebird uses or for the port to get access to the
> host?

Is "scadcam.cloudapp.net:51160" how you connect to the remote cloud?

Doesn't a client need to login/open a connection to "the cloud" before you can access cloud resources?

How is port 51160 being mapped/assigned to your cloud Firebird instance?

I suspect that you need to create a "redirector" which would be installed on the remote client systems. It would login/establish a connection to the cloud and then listen on port 3050 and "proxy" the TCP messages between the client and the cloud Firebird instance.

Sean



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