On Wed, 6 Feb 2002 20:38:48 +0000 (UTC), helebor@...
("Helen Borrie (TeamIBO)") wrote:

>At 04:10 PM 06-02-02 +0000, you wrote:
>>Hello
>>
>>I am stuck again. I have a little application on Interbase 5,
>>IB_Object 4.2 Fn and Delphi 4 C/S. I have a simple report of a table
>>using an IBOQuery for feeding QuickReport.
>>
>>The aplication is working in a "minimal" network; only two PC's linked
>>directly with ethernet cards, with no hub.
>>
>>If I use the application using TIBODatabase.Protocol cpTCP_IP, the
>>report works fine. However, if I use cpLocal
>
>Aside from anything else, you can't use cpLocal for networked connections. It works only for a client that is physically located on the same machine as the db server. Use cpTCP_IP and define a HOSTS entry for the server on both clients. (Where you find the HOSTS file depends on the platform the client is running on - inform us and ask...) In the TCP/IP setup, make the server host machine poll out with the IP address 192.12.13.1. The other client should identify itself as 192.12.13.2 but the client IP address doesn't matter to FB/IB as long as the client knows how to find the host.
>
>Once you have the TCP/IP stuff set up on the two machines, test the connection by pinging each from the other.
>

I had no problem for connecting with my server. I could make a Preview
of the report, and only got the error message while in the preview
window and after all the record were processed and shown perfectly
formatted.

Anyway, I have changed to cpTCP_IP and use "localhost" as nameserver.
I'm using Win2000 and I have an entry for loopback.

After this change, I still receive the same error.

>>I receive an error
>>
>>"Raised exception class EFCreateError with message 'Cannot create
>>file...' ", and three little boxes as the name of the file.
>
>That's a platform-level error - the client app is somehow asking the server OS for permission to create a file and the OS can't create it for some reason, e.g. can't find the specified path, or the file already exists, or the other client already has a file handle for it, or the client doesn't have file permissions or ..... ????

I don't know why the application can't write a file. I have
administrator permissions and I've no clues about what paths might be
involved.

I can't look for a culprit file because the error message calls it
"three little boxes"

>
>>Can anybody help me?
>
>Provide more information...platform & paths would be a good place to start.
>
>
>regards,
>Helen Borrie (TeamIBO Support)
>
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