At 07:07 AM 22/02/2004 +0000, you wrote:

>Computers A and B are conneccted by a cable and just using MS
>networking. If computer A wants to connect to B, where B is running
>Firebird and has the database file, what do I set the database
>property to? Can I just use UNC? Will this work?

It's a UNC-like connection string but you can't use Windows
peer-to-peer-style UNC strings to mapped drives or shares. Firebird's
architecture is client/server and it doesn't know about peer-to-peer...You
also can't use this style of connection if the server is Win 95, Win98,
WinMe or (I think) WinXP Home. (I'd like to hear from anyone who tested
WinXP Home).

B (your server) has to have a Server Name. If your Windows version doesn't
have a way for you to set up the server name, then you'll know that it
doesn't support being a Named Pipes server.

Suppose you called it BServer. Then A would connect to the employee
database on Firebird 1.5 as follows (full string):

\\BServer\C:\Program Files\Firebird\Firebird_1_5\examples\employee.fdb

With IBO it is best to use the individual connection properties:

ServerName: BServer
Path: C:\Program Files\Firebird\Firebird_1_5\examples\employee.fdb
Protocol: cpNetBEUI

With these three properties, IBO constructs the correct connection string
at run time. At design time, it also writes the full string into
DatabaseName. You should delete this and replace it with your own
"user-friendly" name, such as Db.

Win95, etc. *can* be servers, but they can only be TCP/IP servers. Then
you would set up the server machine's physical or logical IP address with
any server name you like in the HOSTS file.

Helen