Thanks Allen.

One question - I'm doing development work and maintaining the production
metadata and applications against the local server. Can / does the new
gds32.dll work against IB as well?

Regards

Tim

At 03:02 PM 07/04/2003 +1000, you wrote:

>I don't do it this way and now have three machines setup with both IB6.02
>and FB1.5RC3
>
>I just ensured that all clients were disconnected from the server. Ran the
>full WIN setup for RC3. Then I edited the conf file to make a remoteport
>change to 3051 and a remoteservice name to fb_db (the default is still
>gds_db)
>Then I edited the servers services file to add tcp/3051 fb_db
>Then I started the FB service (it's not running directly after the setup).
>
>then you ensure that all clients are using the newly installed gds32.dll
>which provides for /portnumber connection strings.
>
> >From then on it's a matter of connecting to old IB databases using
>servername/3050 and new databases with servername/3051
>
>I haven't had a hitch yet and I use different ODBC drivers as well on the
>servers (Intersolv and Gemini)
>
>Alan
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Tim Ledgerwood [mailto:tim@...]
> > Sent: Friday, 4 July 2003 2:47 PM
> > To: firebird-support@yahoogroups.com
> > Subject: Re: [firebird-support] Re: how to use embedded serveur?
> >
> >
> >
> > >
> > >This is true, but it is a kind of advanced feature at the
> > moment. If you want
> > >to do this you need to use the .zip file and manually configure
> > everything.
> > >
> > >The downloadable installable executables should have an
> > installation readme
> > >which states clearly that previous versions should be uninstalled before
> > >continuing. This only applies to the installable binaries, but it is
> > >currently the only simple way of ensuring that Firebird installs and
> > >uninstalls cleanly and without screwing up your system.
> > >
> > >There are several issues which can cause problems for you, InterBase and
> > >Firebird 1.5.
> > >
> > >o Location of gds32.dll.
> > >o Firebird or InterBase binaries in the path.
> > >o The port that Firebird listens on.
> > >o The named pipe that Firebird uses.
> > >
> > >are the main ones.
> > >
> > >
> > >Paul
> > >--
> >
> >
> > This is all very informative, except it doesn't tell us how to do it. :-)
> > Anybody got any tips for those of us who need to do it? The port issue
> > seems to have been well explained, but can anyone explain the
> > other issues
> > or give any tips on how to handle it?
> >
> > I am in the situation of having recently converted my code to IBO for use
> > with FB. Our production systems run on IB 6.02. So if I can't get this
> > right, I need to set up a physically separate machine for either DEV or
> > PROD development work.
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Tim
> >
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