Hi Halen, Thanks for your suggestion. When I compare md5sums of the file a.fdb on both OSes, and they are exactly the same. This was one of the first things I tried...
On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 3:43 PM, Helen Borrie [email protected] [firebird-support] <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hello Seyeong, > > Tuesday, June 21, 2016, 12:52:51 PM, you wrote: > > > SQL>> connect "/home/user/a.fdb" user '*******' password '**********'; > > > Statement failed, SQLSTATE = HY000 > > file /home/user/a.fdb is not a valid database > > > Note that the example file, employee.fdb is accessible. > > > Again, the same file is perfectly accessible on Windows with FlameRobin. > > My top suspicion is that you have a backup file there that you have > inadvertently named with the ."fdb" extension. I suggest you try > again, this time just making certain about those file names when you > back up and restore. > > BTW, this error has nothing to do with the file name: it is raised > when the engine finds the named file but can't find a database header > page in it. > > Also, Firebird doesn't care about extensions at all. ".fdb" for > databases and ".fbk" for backup files are just a convention. > > Helen > > > -- /Da Capo/
