--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, Jonathan Neve <jonathan@m...>
wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> Can fbembed.dll be used as a client library for accessing remote
> firebird servers on the network? I know that the embedded engine can't
> respond to incoming requests from the network, but can't it establish
> outgoing connections to other servers?

Yes. Given a TCP connection string, it behaves like any other
fbclient.dll. The embedded behaviour only occurs when it is given a
local path as a connection string.

This is explained in the Embedded Readme file, although I was
initially confused too. In any case, just give it the connection
string localhost:c:\MyDatabase.fdb, check the connection works, then
shutdown your firebird service and try it again.

Adam