connecting via ODBC problem

[ruba]

Hi all,

I'm trying to connect my FM Pro 8.5 to ASP.NET web application.

Unlike other posts who were not able to see the FM Client driver, I can see the FM driver. My problem is with the DataDirect SequeLink for ODBC setup.

I go to the Data Source, try to add System DSN, select the driver. all is fine up until now.

Knowing that the database is on my machine, I add the following:

Data Source Name: the name of my DB

SequeLink Server Host: 127.0.0.1

SequeLink Server Port: 2399

but when I get to the Server Data Source, no matter what I add the connection fails and gives this message:

[DataDirect][ODBC SequeLink Client]TCP/IP error,connection refused.

Can somebody please help me with this; I'm a student and just learning FM and I've been working on this for quite some time now. So any help would be much appreciated!!

[ruba]

well, I figured out what was wrong and just wanted to post it so that other starters, like myself, pay attention to this.

my db wasn't open!! very simple....

i didn't pay attention to this so kept getting that error message.