Thomas,
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> > 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
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> Have you tried the following connection string?
>
> 192.168.1.2:c:\data\mydatabase.gdb

We have tried this (and it worked of course), but the whole idea behind this
connection string is to have 1 host IP to which we can login and issues
commands(other than Firebird access) and to which we can set up db access.
The actual location and server for the database should be fairly transparent
to the user. However we need to be able to login to different machines while
fetching data from the same database.

At the moment this setup is particular to one customer so it would be nice
if we could solve this by doing it via the connection string and thus
leaving the rest of the application untouched (the application thinks that
the machine to login into and the db server are always the same).

I am 99% sure that I have seen a connection string of this type in a
newsarticle. To my very sincere regrets I did not archive this article and I
cannot remember which newsgroup featured this article... ;-(((

I hope this clarifies things a bit.

Thanks for your answer.

Diederik