Hi

I have added IBObackupservice and restore components to my app from teh IBOAdmin component group. The routines i have written based on the IBbackupservice help in delphi 6. It seems to work fine when I am running from a standalone or the machine where firebird is installed but not when i try and run the app from the other machine on my peer to peer network. This is the situation that I have:

server Study-2 has firebird installed to c drive and my app installed to d drive. d drive is shared with the share name 't'. I am running my app from the other machine, study-1. Both machines are running windows xp, zone alarm is running on study-1.

My code looks like:
extractServer(datamodule2.IB_Connection1.DatabaseName,serverName); //assigns the leftmost char up to the first colon to serverName
DateSeparator := '_';
ShortDateFormat := 'd/m/yyyy';
backupStr:=ExtractFilePath(datamodule2.IB_Connection1.path)+'databackup\'+ 'backupFrom'+datetostr(date)+'.gbk';
showmessage('backupstr:'+backupstr);//for debugging
showmessage('server:'+serverName);
showmessage('databaseName:'+datamodule2.IB_Connection1.path);
with IBoBackupService1 do
begin
ServerName := serverName;
LoginPrompt := False;
Params.Add('user_name=sysdba');
Params.Add('password=masterkey');
Active := True;
try
Verbose := True;
Options := [NonTransportable, IgnoreLimbo];
DatabaseName := datamodule2.IB_Connection1.path;
BackupFile.Add(backupStr);
ServiceStart;
While not Eof do
Memo1.Lines.Add(GetNextLine);
finally
Active := False;
end;
end;

When i run the app from study-1 and try the backup routine i get:
backupStr: d:\firebirdTest\databackup\backupfrom19_7_2004.gbk
server: study-2
databaseName: d:\firebirdTest\mydatabase.fdb

Then I get an error message: 'cannot attach to services manager'. My app does however connect to teh database and appears to work in all other aspects.

Any ideas of what I am doing wrong?

Thank you for your time and help

Pete




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