Hello all

I am currently invoived in a large project to link up a database sitting on a windows server with a filemaker database sitting on our own office server

we are using.

Filemaker server 9 Advanced running on Mac Leopard Server.

The windows server has Windows Server 2003 and is using the filemaker ODBC driver. DataDirect 32-BIT SequeLink 5.5

 

The webmaster is using a standard connection string

 

Driver=DataDirect 32-BIT SequeLink 5.5;Host=IPadress;Port=2399;LogonID=Logon;PWD=password;ServerDataSource=database file name

 

Where the ip address is the external static Ip address of the router,  the logon and password are the login and password for the database file we are connecting to and the server data source is the database file name

 

We are getting a connection failure with the following error code:

 

Microsoft OLE DB Provider for ODBC Drivers error '80004005'

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

/filemaker_test.asp, line 17

 

the webmaster has also set up a system DSN source on the external server and tried to connect this way and still getting a connection refused error

 

It would seem like the request is being refused - the port is open, ODBC is enabled on the server and the file permissions. 

Does anyone have any idea what could be causing this problem?   

 

 

 

extended privileges on for ODBC?

Hello

Yes the file we are trying to connect to has ODBC extended privileges enabled and the odbc option is ticked on the server software

Has the router been configured to forward the traffic?

yes the router has been configured and I have checked port 2399 and it is both opening and listening

It appears thought that the problem maybe the xDBC plugin - does anyone know how I can check this is running