At 01:51 PM 23/03/2004 +0000, you wrote:

>Working with IB_Object 4.3.
>
>I can't seem to get the hang of client connection strings and server
>setup.
>
>I have installed the Firebird Server on machine B and Firebird Client
>on machine A. Machine B has 2 drives, C: and E:.
>
>I am sitting with Delphi on Machine A. I create a database using
>TIB_Connection and the connection string "\\DM17\:\sales.gdb" which
>will indicate netbui connection.
>
>Works fine. The gdb is created in the root directory on C: in machine
>A.

This is confusing. In the first paragraph, you said the Firebird Server
was on machine B and client on machine. If you don't have a server on
machine A, you can not have a database there. You must not use a mapped drive.

>However, I don't want to use drive C: on the A machine, I need to
>use the E: drive that I formatted with 32k allocation unit space
>especially for database purposes.
>
>Connection strings:
>"\\DM17\:\sales.gdb" connects to the A machine 0n C:\

IF you have a server on machine A the full string should be:

\\DM17\c:\absolute\path\to\sales.gdb

>"\\DM17\:C:\sales.gdb" doesn't work

No, too many colons.

>"\\DM17\:E:\sales.gdb" doesn't work

\\DM17\e:\absolute\path\to\sales.gdb

>And of course, shares doesn't work.

No, and mapped drives don't work either.

>"\\192.168.16.77\:\sales.gdb" doesn't work

No, IP addresses are not used by the Named Pipes protocol.

>I am missing something, probably both with server setup and
>connection string, and I can't seem to find much of a soluton based
>on the manuals.

In IBO, use the Server, Path and Protocol properties:

Server: DM17 (as long as this isn't a mapped location - it has to be the
servername of the machine)
Path: e:\absolute\path\to\sales.gdb
Protocol: cpNetBeui

NB You can't use named pipes (cpNetBeui) protocol if the server is Win98 or
WinME. In that case, use cpTCP_IP

Use DatabaseName for a "friendly" name like "Sales" or "Fluffy".

Helen