At 01:17 PM 24/02/2005 +0000, you wrote:

>Hello everyone!
>
>I have 4 PCs (with WinXP Pro) connected through a Workgroup. I'm not
>able to make a connection from one PC to a Firebird database located
>in another PC in the workgroup. I've been searching for connection
>strings examples, but none was good for my case.

No, you can't use workgroup filesharing for connecting firebird clients to
the server. On Windows, you have two choices of protocol: Named Pipes and
TCP/IP. TCP/IP is preferred because it is less noisy.

For named pipes, you need to know the hostname of the server machine. It
must NOT be a share. Let's say its name is "DBServer". (Get this name from
the property sheet of the "My Computer" applet.)

You need a client application on the client machine, and a copy of the
client library, fbclient.dll. (Many client tools need fbclient.dll renamed
as gds32.dll and placed in c:\Windows\System32.)

The connection string for named pipes would be:

\\DBServer\c:\Program Files\Firebird\Firebird_1_5\employee.fdb

For TCP/IP, it would be
DBServer:c:\Program Files\Firebird\Firebird_1_5\employee.fdb

This part (c:\Program Files\Firebird\Firebird_1_5\employee.fdb) must NOT be
a share. You can set up an alias for this part in aliases.conf, e.g.

emp = c:\Program Files\Firebird\Firebird_1_5\employee.fdb

Then your connection string can be

\\DBServer\emp

or

DBServer:emp

For the TCP/IP clients, open c:\Windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts and add
the entry

nnn.nnn.nnn.nnn DBServer

where nnn.nnn.nnn.nnn is the IP address of the server's node in the local
network.

./hb