Thank you, I will give it a try some time and report back.

--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, Elmar Haneke <elmar@...> wrote:
>
>
> > Is there a way to setup a regular local Firebird server to which the application can connect directly (via DLL), so that other connections are possible as well?
> > Or can the embedded server be configured to act as relay to a regular Firebird DB?
>
> The embedded lib does that transparently. The difference between fembed
> and fbclient is that the first does redirect the "local connect" to the
> embedded engine.
>
> To have the application access an server on local machine it might be
> sufficient to replace the embedded DLL with the smaller client DLL. This
> sould make the application open database via server running on local
> machine.
>
> It does not help accessing an server running on an different machine (to
> have the application running on an second machine).
>
> One feature might help to do that: When running on an network share
> firebird does try to redirect database access to an server running on
> the remote host. With luck this might solve your problem.
>
> In any case do try out everything with an copy of your application&data
> only.
>
> You should consider if running on an second machine is allowed by the
> license of your proprietary application.
>
> Elmar
>