On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 1:44 PM, Helen Borrie helebor@... [firebird-support] <firebird-support@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

 

At 01:05 p.m. 14/09/2014, Adam adam395@... [firebird-support] wrote:

>Hi Alan and thanks for your help. I checked the release notes and started again. This is my directory structure:
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>D:\my_app\myapp.exe
>D:\my_app\myapp.FDB

>D:\my_app\fbclient.dll

What's this file? It should be fbembed.dll renamed to fbclient.dll. If it's not, then it's the regular client API and you're getting the error because there's no server.

Yes it's fbembed.dll (from the Firebird-2.5.3.26778-0_x64_embed.zip root folder) renamed to fbclient.dll.

Also I'd want to check that your application (either via path name or using an alias) is connecting to a database path and not an unqualified file name for the DB. The server is embedded but it's still a server, not a file jockey.

I have tried both fullpath (D:\my_app\myapp.FDB) and just filename (myapp.FDB) and in both cases cannot connect. 

Adam