At 10:34 AM 22/03/2006, you wrote:

>On Mar 21, 2006, at 15:26, Helen Borrie wrote:
>
> > It doesn't (and never has) recognised UNC paths. However, the Named
> > Pipes protocol uses an UNC-style format, which works ONLY if
> >
> > a) server is the actual node name of the server (the one that appears
> > in My Computer on that machine);
> > and
> > b) the "\path\to\database" is an absolute path on that machine
> > and
> > c) the host machine is running a service-capable Windows.
> >
> > Also, in all current releases of Firebird 1.5, database aliasing is
> > broken for Named Pipes (fixed in Fb 2).
> >
> > Here's a Named Pipes connection string to a database that's in
> > d:\data on a server named billsbuddy:
> >
> > \\billsbuddy\d:\data\mydatabase.fdb
>
>Thanks Helen. Sadly, I am using an embedded server, so I don't think
>this is an option for me.

Correct. IPServer is the only protocol available for embedded and
it's the closest you're ever going to get to filesystem-level access
to a database.

It seems to me embedded is the wrong model if you want to allow
access to a database from a remote client. Why not use Classic?

./heLen