Helen,

"Helen Borrie" <helebor@...> escribió en el mensaje
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> The only way to do this would be to for the client app to read
> aliases.conf
> on the server - which in well-configured networks would be blocked for
> security reasons.

Agree

> On the other hand, using the firebird aliases in the app, instead of
> paths,
> is highly desirable, since the app need not be aware at all of the

actual

> path.

Agree

> I would want to replace the path elements in your ini file with alias
> names. When deploying, you will need some little script routine to

be run

> on the server to add or update aliases.conf so that the aliases used by
> your app will be found by connections. If you use very meaningful names
> for
> your aliases - such as accounts, personnel, etc. then it will be very
> simple for your users to choose the right database.
>

Yeah, I was trying to take advantage of the aliases.conf, reading the
alias
with some API function may be, but now I've figured out this is not
posible,
I'll look for another solution,

Thanks
Mocte

> Helen
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> At 08:45 PM 8/02/2005 +0000, you wrote:
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>>Does any one knows if there is a way to get the firebird aliases from
>>a Delphi app? Let me explain myself, I have an application which
>>connects to n number of databases, actually I have an INI file with
>>Database alias and his configuration (Protocol, server, path) in it,
>>but now with Firebird 1.5 I think I can eliminate this INI file and
>>show the list of databases (I mean just the alias) as a ListBox to the
>>end user and he can choose to which database connect, Does anyone
>>knows how to achieve this ?
>