Subject Re: [firebird-support] Re: FB Embedded: How does it know if it should be a server?
Author Helen Borrie
At 10:03 AM 12/11/2004 +0000, you wrote:


> > > This would mean that the "local connection" possibility in the
> > > normal fbclient.dll is gone in this version, right?
>
> > This is also written down in the documentation.
>
>Thanks for your answer. However, this is not clearly written IMHO in
>the version of README_Embedded.txt shipped with 1.5.2 RC1 - however,
>the file starts with:
>
>-----------------------------------------------------------
>Firebird 1.5.1 Embedded Server notes
>-----------------------------------------------------------
>
>Could it be that the wrong readme file ships with 1.5.2 RC1, or have
>somebody just forgot to change the version number?

It's the corrected readme that was issued for v.1.5.1. Embedded server
hasn't changed in 1.5.2.

And no, you can't use TCP/IP local loopback at all with the embedded server
library. You can use the library as a client for a remote host.

./heLen