Hi Graeme


Gbak does actually work on aliases , this is the way I use it in my
systems.

Rgds

Peter

On 26 Apr 2005 at 6:17, graeme_edwards2000 wrote:

>
> Does anybody know if it is possible for a client machine in a windows
> network environment to access settings from either aliases.conf or
> firebird.conf on the server programmatically?
>
> The assumption is that the firebird folder on the server is not
> available directly to the client machine.
>
> The reason I ask is because I want to simplify the process of users
> referencing databases on a remote server without losing the ability
to
> backup the database from the client end.
>
> It doesn't appear that gbak is capable of referring to an alias, it
> needs the full path on the server machine and I want the client
> machine to be able to reference server databases by alias, while
the
> full path name is not visible to the user, but the application will
> know it for purposes of backing up/restoring.
>
>
>
>
>
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