> Hi
>
> Another quick newbie question:
>
> I am trying out Firebird embedded as per the instructions given by Phillip
> Flores and others on the Delphi.3rdparty ng:
>
> <<
> 1. Download the embedded version of firebird.
> 2. Extract the contents.
> 3. Copy the dll fbembed.dll into your application's folder.
> 4. Rename the dll to fbclient.dll
> 5. That's it.
> >>
>
> ok, I've done this, and it works, but apart from stopping the FireBird
> services for the server, how do I know it's using the dll rather than the
> FireBird server? I'm just reusing all the same components (in
> fact the ntire
> datamodule) that I was using for the version that accessed the FireBird
> server.
>
> Also, the doco and other material posted on newsgroups suggest that the
> encryption/security with the embedded version is somewhat weak. I
> would like
> it to be password protected (at a file/table level) so no one could access
> it programatically without proper permissions, and encrypted so
> people can't
> read the raw data or make sense of the data if they do connect to it when
> they shouldn't.
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> Lauchlan Mackinnon