What you specify here regarding FTP seems to be a lot of work.

By the way I forgot to mention that I am developing in VB and using
OLE DB driver for Interbase/Firebird from ZStyleGroup. (Sorry for
forgetting this)

I am not that great a programme otherwise I would not have posted
such a stupid question on this forum.

Thanks for suggestion.

Yogi Yang

--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, Teträm Corp <dev@...> wrote:
>
> yogiyang007 a écrit :
> > I have already worked that out but I actually do not want to do
that
> > as my company's EDP manager does not want to share resources like
> > storage medias (drives/folders/etc/etc) in our company's LAN.
> >
> > Anything more parctical would do please.
> >
> > TIA
> it was because I suggest a FTP or HTTP (even webdav, why not)
access to
> your files
>
> the way we use is a pseudo ftp: we have got a service which control
> licences, database integrity and more things.... and it give access
to files
> the client application retreive a doc id and send it to the service
> which respond by sending the document
>
> the only configuration is to open a new TCP port as we did with FB
one
>
>
> an other way I tested was a collection of UDF which gave access to
> server files throw SQL request
> fonctionnality was there but not performances. At least not as
powerful
> as our service but, i think, as storing documents as binary blobs
> the advantage, there was no extra TCP port to open
>