Hi Stephen

The database file should only be visible to the Firebird server, why not set up an alias in
the aliases.conf file on your server instead of trying to use absolute mappings.

e..g mydb = c:\dblocation\myfirebirddtatbase.fdb

then on the client machine give the connection string

server:alias which would translate as server:mydb

I do this on all my apps then they need to know nothing about the database storage
location. In any case shared folders /mappings should never be used and wouldn't work
with firebird anyway.

Rgds

Peter

On 28 Jul 2004 at 15:35, Stevio wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I have two Windows XP machines networked and I am trying to run a Firebird
> Delphi application over.
>
> - One is Windows XP Pro and this has the database on it and Firebird 1.5
> server installed.
> - The other is Windows XP Home and this has Firebird 1.5 client installed.
>
> I have shared the database folder on the XP Pro machine, and the database
> path is stored in a .ini file in the same folder as the application on the
> XP Home machine.
>
> However, when I try to run the application on the XP Home machine, I get an
> error pop up on the XP Pro machine:
> Missing configuration file: C:\Program
> Files\Firebird\Firebird_1_5\aliases.conf
>
> The application hangs on the XP Home machine until I close the error message
> on the XP Pro machine. Is it possible to get it to run in this setup, and
> what format should the path to the database take?
>
> FBDATA=COMPUTERNAME:SHAREDFOLDERNAME\Database.gdb ???
>
> Do I need to map a drive letter to the shared folder?
>
> Thanks,
> Stephen
>
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