Was the NT box also the IB server? Sounds like the services file has not
been updated. I recently installed firebird and found it did not modify
this file on the install, it needed to be done manually.

c:\winnt\system32\drivers\etc\services

Add a line that says

gds_db 3050/tcp

HTH

Andrew

----- Original Message -----
From: <peter.murad@...>
To: <IBObjects@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2001 9:40 AM
Subject: [IBO] ISC error code: 335 544 721


> Created test program on one NT box. Compiled it and moved it to win
> 98 machine in network. When I startup program I get the following
> error:
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> ISC ERROR CODE: 335544721
> ISC ERROR MESSAGE:
> unable to complete network request to host "hp_epc1"
> failed to locate host machine
> undefined service gds_db/tcp
>
> I put in an IP address entry in the hosts file. It made no
> difference.
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