In my experience i have no.problem connecting to local.drive regardless
what drive it is. Im not sure if it the with the dot net. In your
connecting you should put the you should put thr hostname or.ipaddress
where is you fb server followed by the location. Ex. Pcone:c:/test/db.fdb.

Regards,
Precious

On Mar 6, 2013 10:05 AM, "W O" <sistemas2000profesional@...> wrote:

> Always the database should be in the same computer where the Firebird
> Server was installed. Mapped drives doesn't work.
>
> Greetings.
>
> Walter.
>
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 9:43 PM, Alexandre Benson Smith <
> iblist@...> wrote:
>
> > **
> >
> >
> > Em 5/3/2013 22:21, bluewindow99 escreveu:
> >
> > > I'm just getting started with FB using the .NET interface.
> > >
> > > This connect string works just fine:
> > >
> > > private string ConnectionStringFireBird = "User
> >
> ID=sysdba;Password=masterkey;Database=localhost:C:\\MYLOG.FDB;DataSource=localhost;Charset=NONE;";
> > >
> > > But if I copy the MYLOG.FDB file to a mapped network drive and
> > substitute Z: for C: in the oonnect string above, I get a message
> > "unavailable database". This remote drive is on a different PC and that
> PC
> > does NOT have FB installed.
> >
> > As expected, the drive must be a physical (local) drive
> >
> >
> > > As a second experiment, I copied the FDB file to another PC which has
> > the FB server running on it and I could connect nicely by prefacing the
> > file with the IP address of the remote PC.
> >
> > As expected, FB is a client/server database, a cliente will connect to a
> > server on a remote machine
> >
> >
> > >
> > > So I gather that the FDB file must be on a machine where FB server is
> > running.
> >
> > yes
> >
> >
> > > But this confuses me a bit because my mapped Z drive was logically part
> > of my PC.
> >
> > It must be a local physical drive, mapped drive would no work. (on POSIX
> > systems you could use a network share, but it's not recomended)
> >
> >
> > > What would happen if I had a local hard drive partitioned into C and D,
> > and I put the FDB file on the D drive.
> >
> > It will work
> >
> >
> > > Thanks in advance for any light you might shed.
> > >
> > > Best
> > >
> > > Harry
> > >
> >
> > see you !
> >
> >
> >
>
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