Yes - that's how IBExpert works if you select this option - it also stores
full history lists of sql statements etc for each connection in an fb
database
Alan

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mk_delphi [mailto:mk_delphi@...]
> Sent: Sunday, 24 August 2003 12:21 AM
> To: firebird-support@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [firebird-support] Re: UNC to Interbase/Firebird requirement
>
>
> An easy workaround is to create a database on a server,
> I call him alias.fdb in a well know position,(with two column,
> one for an alias and one for the phisical location of the database)
> than read from this database before opening data db in your client.
>
> > Salvatore
>
> Marco Kregar
> marco.kregar@...
> www.firebirdsql.it
>
>
> -- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, "Salvatore Besso"
> <s.besso@m...> wrote:
> > hello,
> >
> > porting a thread from another forum where we were discussing how to
> > resolve UNC paths into installers in peer to peer installations.
> >
> > I was asking how can the installer of the client part of the
> > installation know the location of the database on the server
> (mmmh...,
> > it's only a peer to peer network, not a real client/server).
> >
> > Supposing that the database path on MACHINE_A is:
> >
> > MACHINE_A:C:\MyCompany\MyApp\Database\Database.fdb
> >
> > and that the server part, including Firebird, is already installed
> up
> > and running, how can the client installer on MACHINE_B know of this
> > path during setup?
> >
> > Now taking some quotes from Alan's reply:
> >
> > > the database should be on only one machine.. please!
> > > The FBServer should be on only one machine.. please!
> >
> > of course :-)
> >
> > > All machines (including the one which has FBServer
> > > installed) will point to this one machine...
> >
> > [snip]
> >
> > > Oh and the installer does not need to detect anything
> > > here... the FBServer will resolve this path relative
> > > to it's position.
> >
> > This is the obscure part :-) Ok, for the server installation there
> is
> > no problem, since I know where I'm installing the database, but for
> > the client application? Should I use some Firebird API into the
> client
> > app to retrieve the location of the database, or is it the installer
> > to resolve the location and put it into some registry location in
> the
> > client machine so that the client app can retrieve it when launched?
> >
> > Regards
> > Salvatore
>
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