> --- In IBObjects@yahoogroups.com, Helen Borrie <helebor@...> wrote:
> >
> > At 02:37 AM 6/10/2006, you wrote:
> > >Hi.
> > >
> > >How can I tell TIB_Connection to use another port then 3050 for
> > >accessing firebird?
> >
> > >I'm using IBObjects 4.3
> >
> > In IBO, you append :port_number to the Server property in your
> > TIB_Connection. So, for example, if the server's hostname is
> > "Hotbox" and the port is changed to 30050 , the Server property would
> > be Hotbox:30050
> >
> > It won't work if the server and client machines have not been
> > configured to expect the gds_db service to broadcast from that port.
> >
> > Helen
> >
>
> I tried that. The database in the TIB_Connection editor gets
> "daedalus:3051:d:\db\files\ib\buch.fdb". If I then want to connect to
> the database I get the error: "Invalid connection path"
>
> Anna
>

I think Helen meant

daedalus/3051:d:\db\files\ib\buch.fdb

slash not colon for port
Alan