> >I have a firebird server running on my local machine.
> >However, if I change the connection string to a database on a
> >mapped network drive i.e. G: when connecting I get the
> >error ""Unable to complete network
> >request to host BSLX2K301" where BSLX2K301 is the machine name
> >of the windows machine where the share is located.
>
> That's normal. Firebird requires that the server access a
> database on a local drive. By default NFS mounted drives are
> not accessible. There's no
> theoretical problem with having one server access a database
> on an NFS mounted drive. Having two different servers access
> the same database at the same time is both a theoretical and
> a practical disaster.

In theory can this work with a purely Read-only database though?
I only ask because a client of our requires this functionality. I
would usually just install a firebird server on BSLX2K301 and be
done with it!

Cheers,
Nathan Ludkin