I'm just getting started with FB using the .NET interface.

This connect string works just fine:

 private string ConnectionStringFireBird = "User 
ID=sysdba;Password=masterkey;Database=localhost:C:\\MYLOG.FDB;DataSource=localhost;Charset=NONE;";

But if I copy the MYLOG.FDB file to a mapped network drive and substitute Z: 
for C: in the oonnect string above, I get a message "unavailable database".   
This remote drive is on a different PC and that PC does NOT have FB installed.

As a second experiment, I copied the FDB file to another PC which has the FB 
server running on it and I could connect nicely by prefacing the file with the 
IP address of the remote PC.

So I gather that the FDB file must be on a machine where FB server is running.  
But this confuses me a bit because my mapped Z drive was logically part of my 
PC.  What would happen if I had a local hard drive partitioned into C and D, 
and I put the FDB file on the D drive.  

Thanks in advance for any light you might shed.

Best

Harry

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