> I have an application developped in Delphi 5 (Windows) which uses

FireBird and IBX. The application consists basically in an executable file
(MyApplication.exe).

Originally the application was installed in the server PC and the client PCs
executed this executable file accesing it using the path to the server disk,
for example T:\Program files\...\MyApplication.exe. The data files (which
were dBase files) were in a folder inside the folder of the application.

But now that I am using FireBird, the disk of the server is no longer shared
and the database files are accesed using port 3050. So I install the
executable file in the server and also in client PCs.

Share the application folder out and get the clients to access the
MyApplication.exe. If physical access to the database by the clients is not
desired then
locate the database file outside the shared folder. Client machines don't
need to have access to the database on the server.

Set the connection string to MyServer:c:\....\database.fdb on the client
machines and they can access the database through the server using the same
exe file.

We do exactly the same thing with a delphi 5 application and IBX.

When I have a new version of my application, in the old version with dBase,
I only needed to install the new executable file in the server. But now I
need to install the new executable file in every PC.

Can anyone tell me if there is a way to avoid this?

Thanks in advance.

Gustavo


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on the main (top) menu. Try Knowledgebase and FAQ links !

Also search the knowledgebases at http://www.ibphoenix.com

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