[cobalt-developers] Connecting to Interbase...

["Richard Abrams" <richard@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi there all,

Have been playing around with my RaQ4 further recent discussions on
Interbase problems, and have now connected remotely using a GUI! (wooohooo).

Unfortunately, I don't have much in the way of advice to offer :-( Here are
the steps I followed...

Step 1.
Downloaded and installed the new version of Interbase Worbench from
www.interbaseworkbench.com - I picked this one due to it being one of the
first links on the Interbase web site (not sales pitch!).

Step 2.
Added the following line into my c:\windows\services file (I am running
Win98 SE):
"gds_db    3050/tcp"

Step 3.
TELNET'ed into my RaQ and checked the Services file in /etc/services to make
sure that it also had a corresponding entry. Found it at the bottom of the
file, so far so good!

Step 4.
Edited /etc/inetd.conf to un-comment the "gds_db    stream..." line at the
bottom of the file.

Step 5.
Rebooted RaQ completely (I used the kill -1 <pid>) first, but wasn't
convinced it was doing what I wanted!!

Step 6.
Tested availability of the Cobalt for basic services, HTTP, FTP, TELNET,
POP, SMTP and Admin - all ok.

Step 7.
Set up a new connection in Interbase Workbench using the full path as the
Database field, the IP address of the server in the Server field and sysdba
/ masterkey as the user/password. I also set the SQL dialect to 3 as this
seems to be the Interbase default.

Connected and everything works! Hurrah :-)

Hope this is of some use,

        -Richard