Tom,

> I have an application that needs to be able to use FB embedded to access a

local database or the normal FB client to access a remote database.

Will you need "local" access to the server?

If not, just use the embedded server dll as a normal client to your server.
Embedded server will work as embedded just if the string connection is a
local conection. For TCP/IP and netbeui acess, it acts as a normal client.

The only limitation that you will have is not to be abble to use local
connections. But if you have TCP/IP in your server, you can still use
'localhost' to connect. Only 'true local' connections will be handle by
embedded server.

Artur