Connection Error - Failire to respond

Hi All

I am using Delphi to connect to Firebird over a network. I finally managed to get the connection right, but the error I am getting is the following:

Unable to complete network request to host "WISSA". Failure to establish connection. A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond after a period of time, or establish connection failed because host as failed respond.

Does anyone have an idea on why this would happen?

Thank you,
Wissa

Can you ping that host? Can you connect to the remote database with a tool like flamerobin?

Just tried that and same error of no response.

This is my connection string in Delphi:

WISSA:C:\Projects\TESTPROJECT\main\ABDB.FDB

Does that give you any ideas?

Any help is much appreciated - thank you for responding.

That what? Ping or Flamerobin?
If you got the error from ping there is a network connectivity problem, unrelated to Firebird

Pinging works - Flame robin doesn't

Is it possibly something with the connection string?

I can't tell you anything without an error message.
Are you shure that Firebird is up and running on the remote host and that no firewall is blocking it? Can you telnet to firebird port on remote server?

Thanks a mil - the server had 2 firewalls running for some reason and the one we were checking was allowing access and the other one wasn't

Thanks for the help