> >
> >surely it's just a matter of checking your connection
> properties? protocol
> >cpLocal?
>
> The question seemed to be the other way around: Ed appears to
> want to know
> whether the application can "tell" whether the client is plain ol'
> fbclient.dll or is fbembed.dll and presumably set its connection props
> accordingly.

huh? it would have to connect first in order to load whatever library is
available to it. If it connects cpLocal then it's not fbclient.dll??

Alan

>
> And it can't. Fbembed exposes the same API and runs an ordinary instance
> of the SuperServer engine. The only difference is that it's
> "hobbled" not
> to allow a network connection and it bypasses server-level user
> authentication.
>
> Helen
>