you had best also allow for the application user to edit this servername...
just in case the installer person spells it wrong or some kind person
changes the name of their machine at some late stage.

Alan

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Salvatore Besso [mailto:s.besso@...]
> Sent: Sunday, 24 August 2003 8:26 AM
> To: firebird-support@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [firebird-support] UNC to Interbase/Firebird requirement
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>
> hello Alan,
>
> > Another way now is to use server aliases
>
> I think that this is the best way. I can use a fixed alias that never
> changes and, in the installer, the only thing the installator must
> supply is the server machine name. This name is then saved in the
> registry by the installer itself (I actually use Wise InstallBuilder
> 8).
>
> For now I cannot try because I'm still using Firebird 1.02 and I'm
> waiting for 1.5 final release.
>
> Thanks also to Marco for his suggestion, but I have to keep things as
> simple as possible.
>
> Regards
> Salvatore
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