Hi,

At August 14, 2003, 18:16, Alan McDonald wrote:

> This would mean that you are allowing users to browse to the gdb file across
> the network and network shares... i.e. they can see the gdb file in their
> file system. That's not recommended anyway..
> I only ever use text boxes to place the server name in (installed as a
> default but therefore editable). Even being able to know the path in some
> cases is not recommended, that's why there are server aliases now. You need
> only install the servername and the alias.

Just to add. It's Firebird 1.5 that supports server side aliases.
And, it works really nice.

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Best regards,
Daniel Rail
Senior System Engineer
ACCRA Group Inc. (www.accra.ca)
ACCRA Med Software Inc. (www.filopto.com)