Guidance on usage: Firebird 3.0 Server on Linux Stream 8 Minimal

Connection to Firebird 3.0 Server on Linux Stream 8 Minimal using DBeaver through SSH Tunnel

  1. For the connection to the server, you should know the IP address of the VM. You can find it in your personal account of Azure. Select the virtual machine from the list. By clicking the “Overview” item, your IP is displayed in the “Public IP Address” line.
  1. Go to the DBeaver download page – Download
  1. Download the software distribution that is convenient for you. For example, you can download the Windows 64-bit installer.
  1. Run the downloaded file and finish the installation process
  1. Start the DBeaver
  1. Click on the button to establish the new connection
  1. In the list that appeared, find and select “Firebird”, then click the “Next” button
  1. In the “Path” field (1), specify the path to the database located on the VM. For example: /opt/firebird/examples/empbuild/employee.fdb 
  1. In the “Username” field (2), enter the username sysdba and the password masterkey (3) to connect to the DB. The other fields in the tab leave with no changes. It is strongly recommended to change the password, after connecting to the database.
  1. Go to the “SSH” (1) tab and select the “Use SSH tunnel” (2) checkbox

In the “Host/IP” (3) field, enter the address of the virtual machine

In the “Username” (4) field, enter the username to connect to the VM

In the “Password” (5) field, type the password, which was used to connect to the virtual machine before

Click “Finish” (6) to save and establish the connection 

  1. While connecting, a window may appear for the installation of driver files. Click “Download,” and the connection to the database will continue.
  1. Your Firebird is ready
  1. To start and stop the Firebird server manually, you should connect to a VM. 
  1. With the PuTTY application 

To do this, you need the PuTTY application to connect via SSH. You can download it at the following link – Download

Run PuTTY, enter the VM address in the “Host” field (1) and click “Open” (2) to connect.

In the opened console, you will need to enter the username (1) and password (2) that were specified while the VM was being created (you’ll not see the password in the console while entering it). 

  1. With OpenSSH

In the Windows 10 operating system (starting with version 1809), an OpenSSH client is available, with which you can connect to Linux servers via SSH. If Windows 10 is suitable and the OpenSSH client is installed, you can start connecting via SSH. To do this, launch a standard Windows command prompt and enter the command “ssh user@*vm_ip*” (1), where “user” is the username that was specified while creating the virtual machine and “*vm_ip*” is the VM IP address.

Then type “Yes” (2) and enter the password (2) that was specified while creating the virtual machine.

  1. To stop the server, enter the command:

> sudo systemctl stop firebird-superserver

  1. To start the server, enter the command:

> sudo systemctl start firebird-superserver

For more information and detailed guidance, please refer to the Official Documentation