> From: Diederik Wierenga
> "192.168.1.1:192.168.1.2:c:\data\mydatabase.gdb"

This worked in IB4,IB5, but it is broken in IB6/FB1.
It is already logged as bug on sourceforge (see Multi-hop server ability broken).

> 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.

Now I am not sure how do you want to use "multi-hop" to achieve the goal above ?


Ivan
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