Had the same strange behavior, I do connect by assigning Path, Server and
Protocol
separately as well.

Arno Garrels

----- Original Message -----
From: "Florian Hector" <FHector@...>
Newsgroups: egroups.ibobjects
To: <IBObjects@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, December 02, 2002 6:09 PM
Subject: Re: [IBO] Re: Conncting to server via network


> Somehow my own posting didn't find its way into my newsreader, but at
least
> I can see the answers to it.
>
> In IBO I left both Path and Server completely empty, upon startup the app.
> checks if there is an *.ini file and if so, it reads path and server from
it
> to connect to the database. If the Ini is not found, the user gets
prompted
> to specify the path to the DB file. If the path specified is UNC specific
> like \\tower\d\directory\DBFile.gdb the app. converts it into
> tower:d:\directory\DBFile.gdb and assigns this string to Path of the
> TIB_Connection.
> All this logic is taken from an existing application using IBX and this
> application doesn't have a problem to find the DB server on the remote
> machine. Just to make sure, I have verified that the IB port 3050 is
> specified in services, that name-to-ip is resolved in the host file and
that
> I can ping the remote machine using its name rather than IP, yes to all of
> it.
> Just now after reading Lesters' posting I tried to assign Path and Server
> separately, this seems to have solved the problem. My question now: Is
path
> needed or is it not?
>
> Florian
>
>
>
>
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