It probably tells windows to listen to port 3050 and link them to interbase.

Adam Lang
Systems Engineer
Rutgers Casualty Insurance Company
http://www.rutgersinsurance.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bernhard Doebler" <programmer@b...>
To: "professional php" <pro_php@p...>
Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2001 10:46 AM
Subject: [pro_php] Re: InterBase


> Hi,
>
> after some testings and working around I got an error reading something
with gds_db.
> I looked for this on the internet and found out I have to add the line
"gds_db              3050/tcp" to the file
C:\WINNT\system32\drivers\etc\SERVICES I don't knoe what it does but it now
works as expected.
>
> Best Regards
> Bernhard