Subject RE: [firebird-support] Re: big images in database
Author Alan McDonald
> > you need to store the blobs on the server?, then you need to have
> each
> > client see and have access to the blob in the server's file system so
> the
> > path needs to resolve for every client in a reliable manner. You also
> need
> > to manage permissions correctly.
>
> Thanks for the feedback.
>
> We had identified those two as issues to resolve already... but for
> some
> reason (perhaps because it is very early in our dev cycle) hadn't
> identified them as being particularly problematic.
>

if your target network is exclusively windows domain type, you may have less
problem than if it is mixed or hybrid. In a novell environment you may
provide "public" shares but these are often not also accessible by the
server system in the same way that the clients gain access.
Alan