--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, Richard Wesley
<hawkfish@...> 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.

Would this work if you mapped the drive to a drive letter (e.g. map
\\billsbuddy\data\ to your X: drive, then access via X:\myDB.fdb?

I would agree that it's probably not a good thing to do, but I'm
wondering if Firebird realizes that the drive letter is a mapped
network drive and balks at it (probably not a bad idea).

Greg