Try rebooting the PC first. Your version of windows may only read this file
at boot-time.

If that doesn't work change the second line to
192.168.1.3 sugba

Drop the rest of the line. I'm not sure that windows likes that.

Allen.


At 09:06 AM 11/16/2001 +0000, you wrote:

>Hi People,
> I developed an application on a stand-alone PC using Dephi 3 and
>IBOjects to connect directly to Interbase. I am now porting my
>database to Linux with CS Interbase.
> I cannot get my Windows Client to connect to the DBMS in Linux. I
>read that all I have to do is put an entry in the Windows HOST file
>as follows eg.
> 127.0.01 localhost
> 192.168.1.3 sugba sugba.msugsc.edu.ph (private domain),
>
>but it is not working.
>
>I am getting this error: host sugba cannot be found
> unknown Win32 error 10061
>
> Thanks for the help it is much appreciated. My application is a
>student information system for our school.
>
>Rudy Dorado
>Gen Santos City, Philippines
>
>
>
>
>
>
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