hi - I changed the service to gds_db. not sure if that will help.
Also, here is more complete information on telnet: [turbolinux@localhost firebird]$ telnet localhost 3050 Trying ::1... telnet: connect to address ::1: Connection refused Trying 127.0.0.1... telnet: connect to address 127.0.0.1: Connection refused thx. - jim
