> -----Original Message-----
> From: firebird-support@yahoogroups.com
> [mailto:firebird-support@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of edcurren
> Sent: Friday, July 29, 2005 4:16 PM
> To: firebird-support@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [firebird-support] fbembed.dll on a machine with an
> active fb server
>
> Hi all,
> In the situation where a Windows application that makes use
> of fbembed.dll in installed on a computer that has an active
> firebird server running on it, how would the application that
> makes use of the embedded server behave?

Just fine, as long as the fbembed.dll is in that application directory
(and that directory is active when the app is launched).

> Would it by default use the active server, or would it use
> the fbembed.dll? How would the security behave if the
> database that the recently installed application uses a
> database with a username / password that is not part of the
> server's security.fdb?

It will not use the active server, unless it finds
fbclient.dll/gds32.dll before finding the embedded version due to it
being earlier in the path.

I have several embedded apps that I develop on a machine with FB server
running.. Never been a problem, and they all properly use the embedded
dll (easy to check, try to connect to the same database with the server,
you shouldn't be able to).