| Subject | Re: [firebird-support] Firebird Server Access |
|---|---|
| Author | Helen Borrie |
| Post date | 2007-01-16T00:00:15Z |
At 03:09 AM 16/01/2007, you wrote:
client/server and/or cross-platform computing (and it seems you are
all three) is the Quick Start Guide, which you should find in the
/doc directory of your server installation.
You are using a Windows client to access a Linux server. You need a
Linux path because, as you observe, Linux doesn't understand Windows
paths. The path should always be a fully-qualified path to a file
*as seen by the server*. (It cannot be a share of any sort, such as
a Samba path!) And, because your client has to access a Linux server
across a network, you need a properly constructed TCP/IP connection
path. That's why you have to include the hostname in the connection string.
Briefly, suppose server's network name is 'linuxsvr' and your
databases live in a directory called /home/firebird/databases, for
which the linux system user or group 'firebird' has all the necessary
privileges. You want to connect to a database there with the file
name 'mydatabase.fdb'. Here's the connection path you need from your
Windows (or Mac or Solaris or whatever) client:
linuxsvr:/home/firebird/databases/mydatabase.fdb
For specific issues concerning your database drivers, you should
subscribe to the relevant support lists (firebird-net-provider and
firebird-odbc-devel, respectively) and ask there. You can subscribe
to these lists directly from this page:
http://firebirdsql.org/index.php?op=lists
./heLen
>I have installed Firebird 2.0 on both a W2K and Linux (Fedora 4)[ ..snip.. ]
>Servers.
>The connection string examples I have found on the internet forOK, the "right direction", if you are a newbie at Firebird,
>connecting to TCP/IP Client/Servers include the drive letter. I find
>that rather odd since normal TCP/IP connections require either the
>host name or IP Address. I don't understand. Unix(s) don't use drive
>letters at all and the nearest example I've found is <host>:<database>
> which generates error on both the W2K Server or the Linux Server. I
>confused, frustrated growing more anti-Firebird by the minute. Could
>someone please point me in the right direction? Surely I not the only
>one to have this problem. (and then again...).
client/server and/or cross-platform computing (and it seems you are
all three) is the Quick Start Guide, which you should find in the
/doc directory of your server installation.
You are using a Windows client to access a Linux server. You need a
Linux path because, as you observe, Linux doesn't understand Windows
paths. The path should always be a fully-qualified path to a file
*as seen by the server*. (It cannot be a share of any sort, such as
a Samba path!) And, because your client has to access a Linux server
across a network, you need a properly constructed TCP/IP connection
path. That's why you have to include the hostname in the connection string.
Briefly, suppose server's network name is 'linuxsvr' and your
databases live in a directory called /home/firebird/databases, for
which the linux system user or group 'firebird' has all the necessary
privileges. You want to connect to a database there with the file
name 'mydatabase.fdb'. Here's the connection path you need from your
Windows (or Mac or Solaris or whatever) client:
linuxsvr:/home/firebird/databases/mydatabase.fdb
For specific issues concerning your database drivers, you should
subscribe to the relevant support lists (firebird-net-provider and
firebird-odbc-devel, respectively) and ask there. You can subscribe
to these lists directly from this page:
http://firebirdsql.org/index.php?op=lists
./heLen