--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, "Alan McDonald" <alan@...> wrote:

>
> > I am having problems running gbak and gsec from a command prompt opened
> > while logged-in to the server using Remote Desktop. It seems to be
> > similar to the problems in this post
> > <http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/firebird-support/message/89501>
> > and next time I do a site visit to the customer I shall try this
> > solution
> > <http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/firebird-support/message/89505> .
> > But in the meantime I would like to learn more about Remote Desktop and
> > using Firebird tools. Helen said:
> >
> > "It appears that your command shell client is a remote desktop
> > client. If so, you need to include the -database switch and provide
> > the full network address of the security database ... "
> >
> > but I don't understand why. Obviously my understanding of how Remote
> > Desktop works is too naive. Can anyone suggest clear and simple
> > resources for learning about the issues?
> >
> > Thanks
>
> You wil notice when you log on to remote desktop that yours and the servers
> resources get pooled. Have a look at the drive letters, printers available
> etc.
> So relative and absolute paths become unreliable. You must use the switch to
> avoid this confusion.
> Alan
>

Alan, thanks for the explanation.