--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, Helen Borrie <helebor@t...>
wrote:

> At 04:55 PM 30/03/2005 +0000, you wrote:
>
>
>
> >I have successfully run IB6.0.1 locally at home for over a year and
> >now I am trying to get FB 1.5.2 running on a peer-to-peer network at
> >work. My FB server machine (also my dev mach) is running XP Pro and
> >the client is running XP Home Ed. My FB database resides within the
> >non-shared dir "C:\Program Files\AT6TestData". My client app will
> >only run and connect to the database successfully, if I connect to the
> >database from the server first. (I have a little app that only
> >establishes the req'd connection, which I minimize.) This isn't SO
> >awful, except I can't run the app, unless I'm logged onto the server.
> > When I log off, Windows closes all network connections. What's weird
> >is that the client PC can still ping the server when I'm logged off
> >the server, but it gets an "access denied" error when attempting to
> >connect to the database. Thx much in advance for your help.
>
> Well, to me it seems pretty awful - and it's wrong, of course. The

server

> just hums along there, waiting for connections. It doesn't care (or

even

> know) where that first connection comes from.
>
> So --
>
> 1. Do you have Firebird's client library on the client machine, or

the old

> IB 6 one?

<<ANSWER>> I installed the FBCliwent.dll, using the "Minimal Client
Install" option of the FB 1.5.2 install EXE.

>
> 2. Does the client's connection string look like this:
>
> Servername:C:\Program Files\AT6TestData\any.fdb ?
>
> or like this:
>

\\Servername\C:\Program Files\AT6TestData\any.fdb ?

<<ANSWER>> Looks like:
\\Servername\C:\Program Files\AT6TestData\any.fdb ?

>
> ...or is it something else?
>
> 3. What happens if you ping the server from the client BEFORE you

try to

> connect?

The client is able to ping the server successfully at all times.

>

I'M GUESSING that I have a default local host install (evidenced by
the "DefaultIntsance" entry in Services. I just just know what to do
to enable the FB server to accept remote requests.

Thx, > ./hb
Sam