ok, but if i do not do any mistake, xnet it's only to connect to server located on the same machine as the connecting client? we can not use xnet to connect one client on separate computer right ?

--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, Helen Borrie <helebor@...> wrote:
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> At 09:16 AM 15/02/2010, you wrote:
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> >? I thought XNET was linux/classic either/both.
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> No. Perhaps you are thinking of the [x]inet.d daemon that listens for connection requests on Classic.
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> >But I've never seen XNET on Windows
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> XNET is Windows-only. It's the subsystem by which the IPCServer protocol ("Windows local") is implemented from Fb 2.0 onwards.
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> See http://www.firebirdsql.org/rlsnotesh/rlsnotes20.html#new-win-protocol-xnet
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> >nor do I know how to make a connection string specify XNET.
> >server/port:pathoralias
> >is all I know for TCP. How do you make the above use XNET?
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> As ever, for a Windows local connection: physical file path or alias.
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> ./heLen
>