| Subject | Re: [firebird-support] Database on a virtual Drive created with subst |
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| Author | Helen Borrie |
| Post date | 2008-04-03T11:24:23Z |
At 07:38 PM 3/04/2008, you wrote:
You can't connect to any kind of virtual drive (subst, mapped drive, yadda, yadda, yadda), only to the physical path as seen by the host machine.
If your purpose is to avoid citing a complex path, use a database alias.
./heLen
>I created a virtual drive on the same drive the firebird serverAha! so now you know the documentation is telling the truth - "The true path is the only path." :-) (Sounds like a theme for a mouse-mat or a geek tattoo!)
>resides on and put a database on it. Now i cannot get access to tis
>database.
You can't connect to any kind of virtual drive (subst, mapped drive, yadda, yadda, yadda), only to the physical path as seen by the host machine.
If your purpose is to avoid citing a complex path, use a database alias.
./heLen