The computer that hosts the Firebird DB will need a proper Firebird
server installed on it. The 'Clients' can use the Embedded server to
access that server. The database file doesn't need to be shared.

You could possibly install Firebird server via xcopy, and then register
the server service in a script. However, that will probably require
elevated privileges, which you may or may not have.

Regards,

Peter Lee

On 23/05/2012 12:58 PM, KevinTory wrote:
> I have a simple app, which needs to run for a few users, written in C#.net. The users to not have the ability to run an install on their own computers, so we must install via a simple xcopy. Currently we are using SQLite, but the performance is pretty bad when the db gets a bit large.
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Publishers of 'Auralia' Ear Training and 'Musition' Theory Training