At 09:02 PM 10/07/2002, you wrote:

>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.

uninstalled from the client machines that is.

> >==========================================================
> >
> >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
> > > ProSouth Technology Solutions
> > > P.O. Box 5191, Dunedin, NEW ZEALAND
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> > > (International Callers: +64 3 453 4976)
> > > Visit us at: www.prosouth.co.nz
> > >
> > > -----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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