> > add one more test here -
> > telnet servername 3050
> > and see if you get a response - tells you if the port is open
> > (reponse should be an empty screen)
>
> thanks--and it doesn't work.
>
> I checked the services file on the server and there was no gds_db
> entry. I added it, rebooted, but this did not fix the probelm.
>
> What now?
>
> Ed Dressel;
>

I assume you have the default port 3050 in place (you haven't change it in
the conf file of the server).
If so then a firewall of some kind is blocking 3050 - find it and unblock it
Alan