i had the same problem with ibo it seems that when you do the
getnativehandle the Tdatabase is give you the name of the database in
netBeui format not in the TCP/IP so it is not working only if you have
the NetBeui protocol installed on the computer(windoze)


Henry Yong wrote:

> I am converting our Midas application from BDE to IBO. I am very much
> appreciated If anyone can help,
>
> My original application is using remote data modules sharing one database
> connnection. (using SharedConnection by Dan Miser). On my main RDM, I have
> TDatabase connecting to Interbase and for the child remote data modules, I
> am using the session global variable to retrieve the database connection and
> assign to local TDatabase.
>
> My development platform is D5SP1, IBO3.6Ca, BDE5.1, TCP/IP connection using
> socket server
>
> Here are some my problems:
>
> 1. Coexisting with BDE - I have TIBODatabase variable on each RDM and using
> the GetNativeHandle to grab the database handle and assign to dbHandleShared
> property of TIBODatabase. It works on two of my computers running Win2000
> but failed on Win98. The handle returned generates an exception within IBO
> when I assign the handle to dbHandleShared. One particular instance is if I
> run my appserver first, the same exception occures on Win2000 platform.
> However, if I let midas instantiate the appserver automatically, it works on
> win2000 but still failed on win98. Any ideas for me to hunt?
>
> 2. How can I share TIBODatabase across multiple RDM? Basically what I want
> to do is create the TIBODatabase on my main RDM and share it with all my
> child RDM. Is there a way to access TIBODatabase connection thru a session
> object such as TSessions in BDE?
>
> 3. Since I upgrade the application to D5, it failed to runon Win95 machine.
> The error coming back 'The parameter is incorrect'. Is anyone using midas-3
> on win95 platform?
>
> Thanks
> Henry Yong
>
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