At 08:45 AM 22/07/2002, you wrote:

>I connect to interbase ( delphi 5 IB Objects 4.2g )
>using an ini file path=\\server\c:\mydata\mygdb.gdb
>
>This works 100%. If I remove the colon it won't connect ( ISC Error -
>Error while trying to open file ).

Because you are telling it to find the file on a specific drive. Try this
instead:
DatabaseName=server:/mydata/mygdb.gdb

or:
server=server
path=/mydata/mygdb.gdb

and put these values in their corresponding properties of your TIB_Database
object,

let IBServer do the work for you.

\\server\c\ looks like a path to the server, not a drive, in effect c:\c\...

HTH.

Scott.