> Does IBO know where to find your client? Or, to put it another way,
> is there a correctly-named client in a place where IBO can find it...
>
> 1) Client to a full server: fbclient.dll resident in the system
> directory (unless you intervene at source code level and tell it
> otherwise)
>
> or
> 2) If Embedded is all you have available, you won't be able to
> access a DB anywhere except locally, using cpLocal for protocol, and
> fbEmbed.dll has to be renamed to fbclient.dll and located in the same
> directory as your exe.

what??? wrong.... embedded still allows cpTCP connections - have you
misworded this?
Alan

>
> Avoid the DatabaseName property: using the Path and (if applicable)
> the Server properties is much more robust.
>
> Helen