You can't use a mapped drive to connect to firebird

The database must be located on a drive physically connected to the
server. The service manager option allows you to conceptually ask the
server to run a backup on your behalf, rather than running the gbak as
if you are a normal remote client.

Adam


--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, "Raith, Daniel"
<danielraith@m...> wrote:

>
> > --- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, "Raith, Daniel"
> > <danielraith@m...> wrote:
> > >
> > > I have a customer on which I can't use the -SE option when
> > backing up
> > > or restoring their databases. They run my client software
> > on another
> > > terminal server. I can connect to the firebird server and run the
> > > backup just fine without the -SE option, but I would like
> > to be able
> > > to use the -SE option. Any reason I'm getting the message "service
> > > service_mgr is not defined"?
> >
> > I assume you can connect to a firebird database on that
> > server successfully.
>
>
> No I can connect and I can even run the gbak successfully. I just can't
> run the gbak with the -SE option. I just noticed also that the path to
> the database is not the absolute path on the database server. K is
> mapped to like c:\apps or something. Yet I remember trying to use
> c:\apps not working, which now that I think about it doesn't make sense.
>
>
> (Works)
> "c:\program files\firebird\firebird_1_5\gbak.exe" -B
> "k:\mypath\database.fdb" "k:\mypath\database.fbk" -user sysdba -pass
> blah
>
> (Does not Work)
> "c:\program files\firebird\firebird_1_5\gbak.exe" -B -SE
> servername:service_mgr "k:\mypath\database.fdb" "k:\mypath\database.fbk"
> -user sysdba -pass blah
>
>
> >
> > What is your gbak string?
> >
> > There are some issues with local connection through a
> > terminal services environment, ok embedded and even local
> > connection through SS or CS or gbak or gfix doesn't work at all.
> >
> > >
> > > Also is there a way to detect if classic or super server has been
> > > installed?
> > >
> >
> > single fbserver.exe in processes --> SuperServer.
> > otherwise you will have a lot of whatever the process classic
> > spawns per thread (forgot), it should be pretty obvious though.
> >
> > Adam
> >
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