AFAIK, IB and FireBird doesn't support network drivers as
location of local database files. That's why the client tries
to connect to a remote server.
[]s Fabricio

On Wed, 21 Aug 2002 02:57:35 +0200, Tobias Giesen wrote:

>Hello,
>
>I have encountered a curious phenomenon today ...
>
>I have a network drive mapped as X: on my Windows XP laptop. It contains
>the Firebird data files from a server. When I go home, I want to be able
>to continue using these files thru XP's function "Make Available
>Offline".
>
>I have a local Firebird server on the laptop. However, when I am offline
>and I try to make a local connection to database files on drive X:,
>Firebird doesn't accept them as local files but attempts to connect to
>the remote server. So the attempt fails even though XP has made the
>files available locally.
>
>Is there a way to locally connect to files "Made Available Offline"?
>
>Thanks for any hints!
>
>Tobias Giesen
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[]s Fabricio
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