Thank you, I will give it a try some time and report back.
--- In [email protected], Elmar Haneke <elmar@...> wrote: > > > > Is there a way to setup a regular local Firebird server to which the > > application can connect directly (via DLL), so that other connections are > > possible as well? > > Or can the embedded server be configured to act as relay to a regular > > Firebird DB? > > The embedded lib does that transparently. The difference between fembed > and fbclient is that the first does redirect the "local connect" to the > embedded engine. > > To have the application access an server on local machine it might be > sufficient to replace the embedded DLL with the smaller client DLL. This > sould make the application open database via server running on local > machine. > > It does not help accessing an server running on an different machine (to > have the application running on an second machine). > > One feature might help to do that: When running on an network share > firebird does try to redirect database access to an server running on > the remote host. With luck this might solve your problem. > > In any case do try out everything with an copy of your application&data > only. > > You should consider if running on an second machine is allowed by the > license of your proprietary application. > > Elmar >
