Firebird: Unable to complete network request to host

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Colt picture Colt · Mar 11, 2014 · Viewed 56.4k times · Source

I'm trying to connect to a remote Firebird database "test" (alias already added). It is not an embedded server, and is installed on VM with IP 192.168.1.147.

Here is my connection string:

User=sysdba;Password=masterkey;Database=test;DataSource=192.168.1.147

However I got an error:

FirebirdSql.Data.FirebirdClient.FbException (0x80004005): Unable to complete network request to host "192.168.1.147". ---> Unable to complete network request to host "192.168.1.147".

I've done some research on that but haven't got a clue yet. Some help needed. Thanks

My IP address is 192.168.2.108, and I can ping that server IP successfully

Answer

Mark Rotteveel picture Mark Rotteveel · Mar 12, 2014

Make sure that

  1. Firebird is running
  2. Firebird is listening on port 3050 on the specified IP (or on 0.0.0.0)
  3. Your firewall allows access to port 3050

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