--- In [email protected], Helen Borrie <helebor@...> wrote: > > At 04:27 a.m. 10/12/2012, Hugh Thomson wrote: > >Hello Support, > > > >Me, Newbie. > > > >We are struggling to get the above to work. Tried all available versions of > >the drivers (both 32 and 64) and installed onto Win 2008R2 Std 64-Bit > >servers (virtual) but the Firebird ODBC Setup (from the Control Panel/Admin > >applet) keeps failing with the error message "Open database > >'path:\....\*.fdb' failed". Even moved the DB to the local drive with no > >success. > > The ODBC driver is a client layer. > > On the client side you have application->driver->fbclient.dll. The > application talks to the driver and fbclient.dll talks to the server. The > bitness of the driver should be the same as the application and the fbclient. > Install the driver on the client machine and make sure the path is valid for > remote access, e.g., doggie:D:\databases\mydb.fdb. Substitute the machine > name of the host machine for "doggie" here and "D" must be a physical > partition on the host, not a remote share. > > For further ODBC-related questions please use the firebird-odbc-devel list, > where there are other warm bodies who were ODBC newbies once. It helps to > provide the actual connection attributes you use as something like > 'path:\....\*.fdb' says nothing useful for troubleshooting. > > When posting to the lists, please avoid using your verbose company sig. > We're happy just to know your name :-) > > ^ heLen ^ >
You need to make sure to use the 32 or 64 bit odbc admin (depends of the fbclient and odbc driver that you use) 32 bit odbc admin -> 32 bit odbc driver -> 32 bit fbclient 64 bit odbc admin -> 64 bit odbc driver -> 64 bit fbclient http://www.firebirdnews.org/?p=8032
