At 03:01 PM 21/08/2003 -0300, Daniel wrote:

>Hi,
>
>At August 21, 2003, 11:47, Steve Fields wrote:
> > Just a short reply is all that is needed: Will
> > IBObjects/IB/FB work, at all, in a Peer2Peer set
> > up?
>
>I have clients setup in a Windows 2000/XP Peer-2-Peer environment.

That really is a "false Yes" reply to the question, which is the back end
of a thread on the subject.

The answer is still No. Clients can NOT communicate with a Firebird server
in a peer-to-peer setup. Firebird clients using TCP/IP or NetBEUI to
connect with the server can **coexist** with a peer-to-peer setup. The key
thing about peer-to-peer is that each device can map to another device as
if it were a local device. Firebird clients cannot connect to a mapped
location. The also cannot connect to a share. They connect to a server
(which is an actual physical machine) and thence to an absolute file path
on that server. That is NOT peer-to-peer.

Helen

>But, there are a few things to remember:
>
> 1- Your users need to know which computer has to stay on, for the
> application to work. And, believe me, they will occasionally forget.
> So, it might be possible that they either shutdown or reboot the
> computer that is running Firebird, and forgetting that there might
> be someone connected to Firebird.
>
> 2- Always use TCP/IP to connect, since NetBEUI can be a network hog.
>
> 3- The database file still has to be local to the same computer that
> Firebird is running.
>
> 4- It's better to use Windows NT/2000/XP to run Firebird, since
> Firebird can be setup to run as a service and your users wouldn't
> have to remember to start it, if you didn't set it up to start
> automatically in application mode. The other computers, Firebird
> clients, can be Win9x platforms.
>
> 5- With an application running on the same computer as Firebird,
> Firebird has a good chance of running slower.
>
>Hope this helps.
>
>--
>Best regards,
> Daniel Rail
> Senior System Engineer
> ACCRA Group Inc. (www.accra.ca)
> ACCRA Med Software Inc. (www.filopto.com)
>
>
>
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