Helen, dont answer now!!!! Sleep!

> Set the Path property to the *absolute* path
> to the primary database file, as seen from
> the server, e.g. D:\databases\MyDB.fdb

This is what I guess I was looking for.

When a remote user has installed the IB/FB server
the drive may not be known to my apps. The database
may be on E: or even F: drive on the server. It is
this that I was trying to puzzle out. Jason_s
TIB_Connection browse for file routine will not
take UNC, only actually mapped drives in the dialog
to locate GDBs. It was this that may have been shading
my thinking.

I was trying to come up with as automatic an install
as I could get. I may have to look at this from another
direction. I was using FindFile, etc to locate the path
for my apps. Also I have not yet made the switch to
Firebird....

Thanks Much Much,
Steve Fields