At 08:30 PM 10/07/2002, you wrote:

>I don't think in IB/FB the gdb can reside on a mapped drive

Not from my tests. I can not run it from a mapped drive with or with out
ibserver running locally.

I think he may be having a similar a similar problem like I had a few
months ago when there were multiple servers running that should have only
been clients. Which we fixed by un-installing IB/FB and just dropping the
right (latest) gds32.dll into system32.

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>
>Paul M. wrote:
> >
> > Hi, Scott.
> >
> > He was mapping the server's drive, then setting z:\thepath\theDBfile.gdb as
> > the database to connect to, assuming that z: is the mapped drive. The DB
> > Server is running on the NTServer whose drive is being mapped.
> >
> > I recommended that he switched to TCP/IP to access the DB, which he did.
> > However, after a period of time, this caused the server to lock out all the
> > clients.
> >
> > I think I've sorted out the problem now, though. He had a small app running
> > on the server that backed up the database at half hour intervals, which was
> > still accessing it via the path, rather than TCP/IP. Someone else has
> > informed me that if you use two different protocols to access the DB,
> > Interbase can crash. Therefore I'm pretty sure that this is the
> problem, and
> > that the disconnected machine was a red herring.
> >
> > Does this sound right to the interbase gurus here?
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Paul Matthews
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Scott Taylor [mailto:scott@...]
> > Sent: Thursday, 11 July 2002 5:04 a.m.
> > To: ib-support@yahoogroups.com
> > Subject: Re: [ib-support] Interbase disconnecting all clients
> >
> > At 05:13 PM 09/07/2002, you wrote:
> >
> > >He recently switched to TCP/IP to connect clients to the IB6 server.
> > >(Previously he was mapping the server's drive on each client, and
> accessing
> > >the DB through the mapped drive). Everything
> > >works fine until he disconnects the network cable on his laptop (also
> > >running the client). At this stage ALL clients on the network lose their
> > >connection to the IB server, which the application doesn't particularly
> > like
> > >:)
> >
> > What is the connection string on the clients?
> >
> > >This doesn't happen if he maps the server's drive, and accesses the IB DB
> > in
> > >this way.
> >
> > How do you access the database over a mapped drive? Which machine is
> > serving (running) ibserver?
> >
> > >Theoretically, disconnecting one machine shouldn't cause the IB server to
> > >drop all connections, but it does.
> >
> > Not theoretically, verily. Something else is wrong here.
> >
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