Hi and thanks for jumping in Helen.... On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 1:44 PM, Helen Borrie hele...@iinet.net.au [firebird-support] <firebird-support@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
> > > At 01:05 p.m. 14/09/2014, Adam adam...@gmail.com [firebird-support] wrote: > > >Hi Alan and thanks for your help. I checked the release notes and started > again. This is my directory structure: > > > >D:\my_app\myapp.exe > >D:\my_app\myapp.FDB > > >D:\my_app\fbclient.dll > > What's this file? It should be fbembed.dll renamed to fbclient.dll. If > it's not, then it's the regular client API and you're getting the error > because there's no server. > Yes it's fbembed.dll (from the Firebird-2.5.3.26778-0_x64_embed.zip root folder) renamed to fbclient.dll. > > Also I'd want to check that your application (either via path name or > using an alias) is connecting to a database path and not an unqualified > file name for the DB. The server is embedded but it's still a server, not a > file jockey. > I have tried both fullpath (D:\my_app\myapp.FDB) and just filename (myapp.FDB) and in both cases cannot connect. Adam
