On Thu, 12 Jun 2003 16:35:01 +0000 (UTC), Gary <glablj@...> wrote:

>> ...
> A bit of clarification...
>
> The string supplied to the connection path specifier the very first time
> a client runs the app and connects to the database is the UNC path to the
> GDB file. That gets translated to look like the following in the BDE and
> ODBC entries:
>
> "Cnv-eng-lab-si1:\CMMS\AppServer\Database\DATABASE.GDB"
>
> That's in the lab. "Cnv-eng-lab-si1" is the name of the Win2k Server;
> CMMS is the share; \AppServer\Database\DATABASE.GDB is the path to the
> database server file.
>...

Forget about the share. Use a connect string like:
<servername or IP-address>:<drive>:\<full path>\<database name>
e.g.
THESERVER:D:\DB_AREA\mydatabase.gdb
or
198:168.123.100:D:\DB_AREA\mydatabase.gdb


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Aage J.