On 16 Jul 2001, at 23:30, Lucas Franzen wrote:

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From: Lucas Franzen <luc@...>
Date sent: Mon, 16 Jul 2001 23:30:53 +0200
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Subject: Re: [IBO] Creating a database on the fly using IBO

>
> > >
> > > Is lnxsrvr the server where IB is running on?
> > >
> >
> > Okay, I want to create the database on a Linux machine called
> > lnxsrvr, as opposed to the workstation where IBO resides.
> >
> > > If yes:
> > > you can omit the machine name, since the database will be created
> > > by the server which is running on this machine anyway and can only
> > > be created on alocal drive/path from the server.
> >
> > Hmm. I may try that, but it doesn't make sense, how does the client
> > know what server to send the name too. If it doesn't need it,
> > shouldn't it just ignore it?
>
> Because you told the IB_Connection about the SERVER-Name already. The
> client can't create a database, only the server can.
>
> And what I tried to explain is that the server can only create it when
> the path is local to itself. It camn't be on mapped network drive
> (seen from the server).
>
That didn't work, it gave me an error message about unavailable
database, it didn't even try to connect to the network.

> >
> > > if not: it is impossible to create a database on network drive.
> > >
> > > If this doesn't help try to delete the Connection and transaction
> > > property of the script and re-add it.
> > >
> >
> > But why?
>
> Because I had some problems with that - although they were mainly
> because I used project groups in Delphi (and if both projects have got
> datamodules then strange things (not only in IBO, all through Delphi!)
> happen).
>

This did nothing either...

Paul
Paul Schmidt,
Tricat Technologies
Email: paul@...
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