--- In IBObjects@yahoogroups.com, Aage Johansen <aagjohan@o...> wrote:

> On Mon, 25 Aug 2003 17:43:01 +0000 (UTC), Steve Fields wrote:
>
> > I take it back about the services file.
> > It is there but at the end of about 50
> > lines, and not in port order. And on
> > that computer, not even the one I use
> > to access all of the databases.
> >
> >>
> >> Anyway, The Hosts file only has one entry in it,
> >> 127.0.0.1
> >> The Services file does not have any entry for gds_db.
> >>
>
>
>
> How are the client able to reach the server, and the correct port?
> There are several possibilities, but the usual one for IB is:
> 1. An entry in the hosts file linking SERVER NAME to IP ADDRESS, and
> 2. An entry in the services file indicating the port no (3050 in

this case).

> Note that an extra empty line at the end of these files can be a

good thing.

>
>
> Regards,
> Aage J.
>
> ps.
> "Top posting" makes it difficult to follow the discussion!

Aage,
(I have been to both top-poster and bottom-poster sites
sometimes I cannot remember which I am on at the time.
Sorry. :) )

On several PCs after clean IB installs there is only one line in
the Hosts file: 127.0.0.1 and no entry for gds_db in the
services file. Yet the programs work with no problem. I just
do not know all of the many places that can be configured
for Interbase or IBObjects that I should be looking for. I do
remember to watch for the 3050 setting but in forgetting it
I still have working sites. (???) The one I am developing on
had no such entries for both files, but I have fixed that.

I am working with MSSQL, Interbase, Pervasive, SDL, Paradox,
TurboImage, and the usual basic databases (DBase, CSV, etc)
Sometimes it is overwhelming trying to remember all of the
settings I must remember. After I get through with this problem
I am going to try to set down and write a book on some of them....

Thanks,
Steve Fields