I have never had a problem with local vs remote connections, although for a
couple of years now I have always connected remotely, even on the same
machine. On FB now, there should be no problem as the file is locked on
first connection, the problem used to be that if IB didn't realise that the
DB was already open it would merrily open it again and internally think it
was looking at two DB's, resulting in near instant corruption.

we had it with:

server:d:\data\some.gdb vs
server: d : \data\some.gdb (notice the spaces).

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""rodbracher"" <rod@...> wrote in message
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> I have been reading through the archives re certain errors and it
> seems important to use the same connections string.
>
> Does this mean it is bad to connect to the server direct ( running
> the exe on the server ) with its local path and running the exe on a
> client with a network path (e.g. c:\server... vs \\server\c\...
>
> What is the reason for this.
>
> Thanks
>
> Rod
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