Em 5/3/2013 22:21, bluewindow99 escreveu: > 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 expected, the drive must be a physical (local) drive > 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. As expected, FB is a client/server database, a cliente will connect to a server on a remote machine > > So I gather that the FDB file must be on a machine where FB server is running. yes > But this confuses me a bit because my mapped Z drive was logically part of my > PC. It must be a local physical drive, mapped drive would no work. (on POSIX systems you could use a network share, but it's not recomended) > 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. It will work > Thanks in advance for any light you might shed. > > Best > > Harry > see you !
