Hi

We are using TCP/IP as the protocol and are setting the ServerName
property to the machine name.

Rob Martin
Software Engineer

phone +64 03 377 0495
fax +64 03 377 0496
web www.chreos.com

Wild Software Ltd



Adam wrote:

>--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, Robert martin <rob@c...>
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>>Hi
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>>We have been using IBBackupService to do backups. This has been
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>working
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>>fine. We just swapped from SS to Classic and we now get errors.
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>We set
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>>the DatabaseName to 'c:\path with spaces\DbName.fdb'. In SS this
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>works
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>>fine, in classic we get a DB not found 'C:\path'. It seems to not
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>>able to handle spaces in the file name. What can I do about this?
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>>also note that in SS Gbak from the command prompt I can specify my
>>source db as above however in classic I need to use
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>ServerName:c:\path
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>>with spaces\DbName.fdb. I tried using this format for databasename
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>but
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>>it fails (in SS and classic).
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>>Help !
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>Rob,
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>I doubt this has anything to do with spaces. You can not connect to a
>Windows Classic server via direct file access like you can with
>Superserver. You must instead use a TCP Loopback connection.
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>I do not know if the spaces are handled incorrectly by IBX, or
>whether your problem is some name resolution issue. A better approach
>may be to use aliases, so the connection string is independent of
>where the database sits, (which may change from time to time as new
>partitions are added etc).
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>Adam
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