It's really super-easy to install the FB server - I come from a
mapped-drive-access background, and once I got myself to try client-server
with FireBird, I immediately thought to myself "why have I spent all that
time creating shares and mapping them, when a simple client-server setup
would have been so much easier to maintain?". Just give it a go. You can
even install the FB server on your own machine and connect to it as if it
were a "real" c/s system, by using the 127.0.0.1 (localhost) loopback
address, which makes it real easy and safe to learn the setup without
touching your real environment.


Antti Kurenniemi

----- Original Message -----
From: "S C" <pc_phd@...>
To: <firebird-support@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2006 6:51 PM
Subject: Re: [firebird-support] Embedded Database from server share.


> The reason I am using firebird embedded is to replace using access dBs. I
> do not want to install a server. In my company mapped drives are used for
> all my data storage. FireBrid will only work for my purposes from a
> mapped
> drive embedded. Is there any work around for accessing a FireBird dB on
> a
> shared drive.
>
>
> At 08:06 PM 11/01/2006 +0000, you wrote:
>>Can you access a firebird 1.5 dB from a mapped drive on a server\share
>>using the embedded dll?
>
> No.
>
>>
>>I keep getting the error "Unsuccessful execution caused by a system
>>error that preludes successful execution of subsequent statements.
>>Unable to complete network request to host "servername". Failed to
>>establish a connection. The system cannot find the file Specified. .
>>Any suggestions?
>
> Don't try to access databases via shares.
>
> The embedded model is specifically for "stand-alone" use, with the client
> and the embedded server sharing the same IPC space, which is memory that
> is
> managed by the local machine. If you want to access a networked database,
> you have to use a server model that uses a network transport - meaning a
> full Classic or Superserver server running on the server and the client
> accessing the server via a network protocol.
>
> ./heLen
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