community.borland.com

Article #25254: Unable to complete network request to host "host_name@sys"

Problem:
32bit connectivity with Novell's SPX/IPX protocol  requires InterBase 4.2 for
Netware on the Netware server and the use of the InterBase 5.1 client.

Solution:
Note: This document refers to InterBase 4.2 for netware and InterBase 5.1 client.

Use TCP/IP to connect to Netware  or  update your server and client..
------

If you install TCP on your Novell machine and clients.  Make sure that you 
start the TCP NLM prior to starting the IB NLM.  Make sure that all your SERVICES 
files are set up correctly.  Ensure that you can ping back and forth from client to 
server and vice versa using the machine_names NOT IP addresses.

The BDE alias or connectivity syntax for TCP would be:

        ::

Last Modified: 02-OCT-00