At 08:21 AM 1/04/2005 +0200, you wrote:

>On Mar 31, 2005 3:02 PM, Helen Borrie <helebor@...> wrote:
> >
> > At 02:31 PM 31/03/2005 +0200, Daniel Albuschat wrote:
> >
> > >\\servername\C:\Program Files\Foo.fdb is a *local* path for FB,
> >
> > No, it is a remote path for a Named Pipes client attaching to a server that
> > is *not* local.
>
>Uhm, I'm sorry. I didn't know about the Named Pipes "protocol".
>But this sounds rather confusing, since named pipes have nothing to do
>with networking in the first place.

Really?????

>I couldn't find any infos about firebird
>and named pipes via google... can you describe how firebird realizes
>this named pipes thingie?

Firebird doesn't "realize" Named Pipes. It's part of Windows networking
services. The driver is called npfs.sys ("Named Pipes File Server" - Named
Pipes actually is realized as a filesystem!) MySQL, MSSQLServer, Oracle
(and many other applications) use it too. (Other NOSs have Named Pipes
transports: it's not exclusive to Windows networking...)

Firebird's default named pipe is called "interbas". It identifies the
named pipes transport channel for the firebird service, much like the port
number does for TCP/IP communications.

./hb