> And this syntax ought not to work anyway. The \\ indicates that

you are

> using whatever we are calling the NetBeui protocol these days.

Said

> protocol has absolutely no concept of IP addresses.
>
> > or \\homebox\C:\PPerfect\SQLData\pperfect.gdb
>
> You'll need NT, Win2k or Win2k3 to make that work.
>

I do have tcp/ip installed on all pc's - what connect string should
I use. 10.0.0.100:C:\PPerfect\SQLData\pperfect.gdb

Does not work (No file found)

Rod



--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, Paul Reeves <paul@f...>
wrote:

> On Wednesday 21 April 2004 15:41, rodbracher wrote:
> > Our app works all over with windows clients to linux server or
> > windows clients to non XP windows servers. So I am convinced it

is

> > some strange security issue.
>
> And might be right. Microsoft, if I recall correctly, turned this

feature

> off in XP. You have to use tcp/ip to access a Firebird server on

XP.

>
> >
> > We got this error at a client so I duplicated it here on our

network

> > between these two XP pc's
> >
> > my connect path is \\10.0.0.43\C:\PPerfect\SQLData\pperfect.gdb
>
> And this syntax ought not to work anyway. The \\ indicates that

you are

> using whatever we are calling the NetBeui protocol these days.

Said

> protocol has absolutely no concept of IP addresses.
>
> > or \\homebox\C:\PPerfect\SQLData\pperfect.gdb
>
> You'll need NT, Win2k or Win2k3 to make that work.
>
> Paul
> --
> Paul Reeves
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