I use IB6.0 - does this mean I could get a corruption with local vs
remote connections ?

Or were the corruptions you were talking about only on different
remote connections ?

--- In ib-support@y..., "Jason Chapman (JAC2)" <jason@j...> wrote:
> 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).
>