>Placing the database on an mapped drive is not the natural consequence

of not installing >firebird on the server. The natural consequence of
installing the server on another

>machine is to store the database on an local harddisk of this machine.

That is true, which is how the system is working currently, but they
want the data on the other server so it is archived with their current
backup procedures, and therefore do not have to write another backup
procedure.


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