Hello Adam,

>
> I suppose you could (and I cringe as I write this) share the

firebird

> folder with read permissions (preferably only on the aliases.conf >

file).

hm, yes possible, but not flexible enough.

> A better solution would be to write a service that sits on the

server

> using Remobjects or equivalent that you could create a call
> GetAliasConf that returned you the string, then call this from the
> client application.

Yes, but I'm not familiar with RemObjects. I'm only interested in the
alias names which are in the aliases.conf file, not in the path
itselfs to the databases.

> Why would you want to do this though?

In a former version of my app, based on Paradox tables , it was
possible to work with differend BDE aliases to switch between
different data. It was easy to call all available aliases from BDE.
Actually I'm interestet in the theoretical possibility to ask Firebird
server for the available aliasnames from aliases.conf .

Ulrich