--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, Markus Ostenried
<chef_007@g...> wrote:

> At 17:53 Friday, 16.07.2004 +0000, ra8009 wrote:
> >The two machines are conncted to one another with a crossover cable
> >and TCP/IP.
> ...
> >I'm thinking that my snytax might not be correct? I'm using IB
> >Objects. What should the server be listed as?
> What do mean with "listed as" - the Server property of IB_Connection?
>
> >"\\Machine_A_Name"
> >
> >and the database?
> >
> >"C:\MyDir\MyDatabase.FDB"
> >
> >Is this correct?
>
> With TCP/IP my connection string in IB_SQL looks like
> Xeon:C:\Db\Zillenbach1.fdb
> (ServerName:DatabaseFile.fdb).
>
> So I think for the server property you should use
> "Machine_A_Name" instead of "\\Machine_A_Name".
>
> HTH,
> Markus

Thank you. I haven't tried that syntax. Hopefully that will do it.