Hi Joe,

the "Using Firebird" document (included on the IBPhoenix CD) states
on page 49 states.

"It is not possible for a Firebird client to connect to a database
on a Windows host which it sees as a mapped drive or shared resource."

I'm a bit confused now ;-).

Anyway. There is no need that the client "sees" the database file via
a mapped drive (e.g. due to security reasons). It's a good practice
not to use mapped drive, but rather using a TCP/IP connect string,
whenever you want to connect to a remote database.


Regards,
Thomas Steinmaurer
IB LogManager 2.1 - The Logging/Auditing Tool for InterBase and Firebird
http://www.iblogmanager.com

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joe Martinez [mailto:joe@...]
> Sent: Sunday, January 05, 2003 11:29 AM
> To: Interbase Support
> Subject: [ib-support] Connecting to DB via network drive?
>
>
> I just had a customer call me who is using FB 1. After going through his
> settings, I found that he was connecting to the database from a client, via
> a network-mapped drive. For instance:
>
> Data file on server is C:\mydata\datafile.fdb
> On the client, the server's C: drive is mapped to drive T:.
> The client uses the following connect string:
> T:\mydata\datafile.fdb
>
> I thought that this had been disabled in Firebird??? I stopped warning my
> customers about not doing this because that pitfall had been fixed. It
> appears that it has not been fixed, or my customer found some way around it.
>
> Their server is running Windows 2000 Server. The client is Windows XP,
> logged on as Administrator.
>
> Any ideas? Or was I wrong about this having been disabled.
>
> -Joe
>
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