At 07:48 PM 11/07/2005 +0000, you wrote:

>Hi,
>
>Can somebody please point out how to connect to an embeded FireBird
>database on Linux from a Windows application written in Delphi?

First, there's no such thing as "an embedded Firebird database on
Linux". A database is a database. There might be some application on the
host machine that is making an embedded connection to the database...so, to
that extent, the interface between application and database service is
"embedded".

To access a database on a Linux host from a Windows application in Delphi,
the following must be true:

1. The Firebird server is running on the Linux host.
2. The Windows client machine must be running TCP/IP.
3. The Windows client machine must be able to find the Linux host
4. The host must be accessible by the Windows client machine.

Let's say all this stuff is true and the Windows machine has the Linux host
configured in its hosts file as lxserver....

Let's say the database is located in /data/databases with the file name
"mydb.fdb".

Then your TCP/IP connection string from any client app, on any OS platform,
will be:

lxserver:/data/databases/mydb.fdb

Now, let's say you have the database set up in aliases.conf (on the host,
natch!!) as "fred":

fred = /data/databases/mydb.fdb

Then, your Delphi app (or any other client app) can use the alias in the
connection string, instead of the hard path:

lxserver:fred

./heLen