| Subject | Re: [firebird-support] Aliases.conf limitations |
|---|---|
| Author | Dmitry Yemanov |
| Post date | 2005-10-14T06:49:32Z |
"Jason Dodson" <jasond@...> wrote:
the client library tries the remote subsystems with a given connection
string. On posix, there cannot be a ":" drive separator like on win32 and
it's considered to be a TCP/IP connection string, hence the failure you
observe. But your example looks quite weird to me as you mix pathnames for
different OS. If you want a path substitution, both paths should belong to
the same OS (the server one).
BTW, I think this issue shouldn't exist on v2.0. Could you please check?
Dmitry
>Aliases is resolved by the engine in v1.5. To establish a server attachment,
> Using Linux. Slackware, Gentoo, and Debian, and it fails...
> both on 1.5.1 and 1.5.2.
the client library tries the remote subsystems with a given connection
string. On posix, there cannot be a ":" drive separator like on win32 and
it's considered to be a TCP/IP connection string, hence the failure you
observe. But your example looks quite weird to me as you mix pathnames for
different OS. If you want a path substitution, both paths should belong to
the same OS (the server one).
BTW, I think this issue shouldn't exist on v2.0. Could you please check?
Dmitry