Hi

I just tried installing my app to another drive, d: which is also shared on my network, so it has my app, gds32.dll and the database. Then i could use the connection string 'study-2:d:\FireBirdTest'. If I run the app from the machine that has firebird installed on it, it seems to works. However, when I try and run this from the other machine connected to my peertopeer i get an error 'EIB_ISCError unavalable database'. I tried installing firebird to the same d: drive I get the same error.

I'm not sure what you meant by: 'Where "c:\myapp\etc..." is the LOCAL path on the "server" machine. If you're not running the service, you're out of luck -- it won't work with the database on a network location,and for good reasons.'

I have got firebird running as a service on the Xp machine.

Thanks once again for the help!

Pete

----- Original Message -----
From: Martijn Tonies
To: firebird-support@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Friday, July 09, 2004 10:13 AM
Subject: Re: [firebird-support] Can firebird be used on a windows peer to peer network?


Hi Pete,

> Sorry to ask what is probably another stupid question but I have been
> trying to find/work out the answer for several days now...
>
> In the process of converting my paradox based app, I have used the
> firebird-1.5.0.4306-win32.exe to install firebird to the c: drive of
> several machines and then run my test app with no problems.
>
> I now need to work out how it will be installed to a LAN and as a
> first step was trying to install it to my peer to peer network (win98
> and winxp).
>
> I have tried installing firebird to c drive and installing my app and
> database to \\study-2\SharedDocs\FireBirdTestDir but I get an IO
> error. During the installation, an ini is created that stores the
> application dir, in this case '\\study-2\SharedDocs\FireBirdTestDir'.
> This is then used as the databaseName for my IB_ connection. I also
> tried installing firebird to \\study-2\SharedDocs\FireBirdTestDir.

You cannot connect to a share/file on a share, you need to connect like:
study-2:c:\myapp\firebirddata\mydatabase.fb

Where "c:\myapp\etc..." is the LOCAL path on the "server"
machine. If you're not running the service, you're out of
luck -- it won't work with the database on a network location,
and for good reasons.

> I also read on www.alanti.net/firebird/inst/ that i need a copy of
> gds32.dll in the app dir, but that didnt seem to help.
>
> I have read in the quick start-up guide that 'shares do not work' is
> this the problem?

Well, yeah - that could be the problem, couldn't it :-)

With regards,

Martijn Tonies
Database Workbench - developer tool for InterBase, Firebird, MySQL & MS SQL
Server.
Upscene Productions
http://www.upscene.com


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