Thank you all for all of your great solutions. I will try later.

GD
--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, Helen Borrie <helebor@t...>
wrote:

> 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