Try to add following line to the "services" file located in
\WINNT\system32\etc\

gds_db 3050/tcp

Thomas

> -----Ursprungliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Igor Korenika [mailto:igor.korenika@...]
> Gesendet: Samstag, 20. Janner 2001 19:14
> An: IBObjects@egroups.com
> Betreff: [IBO] Problem with Delphi 5--> gds32.dll (i think)
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> I'm writing an Activex componet for make some database
> work in the Iexplorer enviroment.
> On the develloping machine there are no problems.
> But when i go to another machine the Activex doesn't work.
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> Then I've made a little program (Delphi5 with IBobjects) to test the
> network
> enviroment.
> I have two machines (one for develloping and testing the
> other is a clean one for testing)
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> They are connected to a server (Win 2000) where resides
> the Interbase server.
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> I've copied the test program to the test machine with gds32.dll.
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> When I try to connect to the server i get the message
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> Unable to complete network request to host "myserver"
> Failed to locate host machine.
> Undefined service gds_dp/tcp
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> The network is O.K.
> Ip is O.K.
> Hosts file is O.K.
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> Thanks in advace
> Igor Korenika
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