My guess is that you are only allowed to have multiple connections within
the same process. When using Delphi as the IDE and having your running
application in a separate process these two server instances compete.

My suggestion is to develop your application with a standard client/server
setup and then when its time to deploy use the local engine.

Jason Wharton
www.ibobjects.com

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alan McDonald [mailto:alan@...]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2004 10:37 PM
> To: IBObjects@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [IBO] IB_Connection Settings for Embedded
>
>
>
> I have configured my app to use the embedded server.
> I delete the server entry, provide the path to the database
> file and ensure
> my conf, udf etc files are in the app dir as well.
> Now I can build the app, and when it runs it connects fine
> thru the embedded
> server to the local file.
> BUT when I go thru the IDE and try to set connected to true in the
> IB_Connection component, it errors out on unavailable
> database exception.
> What could be wrong if it fires up OK outside the IDE?
> thanks
> Alan