Thanks Brenden. I appreciate the info.

--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, "Brenden Walker"
<bkwalker@d...> wrote:

> > -----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).