Daniel Rail wrote:

> Hi,
>
> At December 24, 2004, 20:32, Raymond Kennington wrote:
>
>
> > I have an NT w/s with FB 1.5.1 installed. The firewall is allowing it to
> > act as a server on port 3050. SYSDBA and password have not been changed
> > from the default. The computer's name on the network is MACHINE2.
>
> > In aliases.conf I have defined an alias for the database:
> > TestDB = d:\test\TEST.FDB
>
> > I am running Delphi 7 with IBObjects on an XP machine.
>
> > I have not set any permissions on the NT machine for the XP machine to
> > access the root drive of the NT machine, where Firebird resides.
>
>
> > In IB_Database1 I set
> > AliasName to TestDB
> > protocol to cpTCP_IP
> > server to the local ip address of the machine: 192. ...
> > password for SYSDBA entered as the usual default.
>
>
> > Error message:
>
> > Unable to complete network request to host 192. ...
> > Failed to establish a connection.
> > No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it.
>
> > What must be done to allow the connection?
>
> If Firebird is running as it should, then I would be looking at the
> firewall settings.

Thanks, but the same still occurs when I remove the firewall from both
computers.

Raymond.