Diederik,

> Hello All,
>
> We are looking into the following:
>
> We need to create a situation where two machines (FireBird DB servers) are a
> sort of relaying servers to the actual FireBird DB server which holds the
> DB-file. We need to do this since we have to run commands on the relaying
> server, but need data from the database to do so.
>
> I once read in a newsgroup (sorry, I cannot be more specific since I cannot
> find that article again...)that a connection string of
> "192.168.1.1:192.168.1.2:c:\data\mydatabase.gdb" should be able to do so. We
> have tried this (in all kind of variations) but the result was that we could
> connect and do eg. "show tables", but on performing any sql statement we
> received an "901 - feature not supported" error.
>
> My questions are: - Is this possible and if so, what is going wrong here?
> - Can migrating to v1.5 help us?
>
> BTW, the relaying machines are RedHat 7.3 and the actual DB Server is
> Windows 2000 Server.

your connection string looks a bit strange, because the server name (IP address)
is included twice.

Have you tried the following connection string?

192.168.1.2:c:\data\mydatabase.gdb


Regards,
Thomas Steinmaurer
IB LogManager 2.1 - The Logging/Auditing Tool for InterBase and Firebird
http://www.iblogmanager.com