sllimr7139 wrote:

>
> Hi Daniel,
>
> I did, but I had disabled it and renamed the gds32.dll in the system32
> directory. The only thing I didn't do last night was restart windows.
> I can only assume that becuase I restarted windows that somehow fixed
> what ever the problem was.
>
> BUT....this morning I am running on a different machine where the
> firebird SS is installed and running and the application has no
> problems connecting to the dll and running the embedded server. So
> I'm not really sure what the problem was last night.
>
> And incase anyone asks I've already confirmed that the embedded dll is
> being loaded and used by my application instead of the SS service
> installed and running on this machine.
>
> I must have missed something last night and did it with out thinking
> about it this morning.
>
> Ryan.
>

Hi Ryan

Once I failed to connect to a database on a machine where only the
embedded server was installed. The application was not able to connect
to the database, reporting "cannot open file". After setting property
"Role" of TIB_Connection to "0", everything was fine. I still don't
know, why this works, but it does.

Rolf Nussbaumer