Hello Rohit
I also hit this issue early after switching from Paradox to Interbase.
Client workstations require connection strings dependent on the connection
method and neither connection method can use drive letters to connect to the
IB database.
Perhaps someone has an elegant solution for this hurdle which appears when
installing applications on clients.
What I did was to write an installation assistant program which is
1. run in the IB database directory on the IB server, where it creates a
file containing connection details for clients for each connection method
(and other details for my use)
2. run from a client at installation time, when it retrieves the connection
information and places it in the clients registry for use by my application.
This description is brief. I am happy to give you the installation assistant
if you want it.
Regards
Russell
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From: Rohit Gupta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Multiple recipients of list delphi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2001 11:29 PM
Subject: [DUG]: Paths and UNCs
> Working with interbase, because we had lots of non database shared files,
we
> use a shared drive instead of the machine name for interbase connect....
eg
>
> m:\vl2\data where m is say D drive of machine GATE.
>
>
> This allows to use one setting to access interbase and all other files.
And
> this works fine with NT workstations.
>
> 95/98 workstations though fail.... the error they give make sit obvious
that
> they have failed to conver the m:\vl2\data into a valid complete UNC path.
>
>
> Has anyone else had this problem ? Are there any fixes or solutions ?
>
>
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