Silly question ... has windows sneeked a hidden .txt to the file name? Been caught by that a few times.
Sent from MailDroid -----Original Message----- From: "[email protected] [firebird-support]" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Fri, 20 Apr 2018 19:55 Subject: [firebird-support] aliases.conf ignored? <!-- /* start of attachment style */ .ygrp-photo-title{ clear: both; font-size: smaller; height: 15px; overflow: hidden; text-align: center; width: 75px; } div.ygrp-photo{ background-position: center; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-color: white; border: 1px solid black; height: 62px; width: 62px; } div.photo-title a, div.photo-title a:active, div.photo-title a:hover, div.photo-title a:visited { text-decoration: none; } div.attach-table div.attach-row { clear: both; } div.attach-table div.attach-row div { float: left; /* margin: 2px;*/ } p { clear: both; padding: 15px 0 3px 0; overflow: hidden; } div.ygrp-file { width: 30px; valign: middle; } div.attach-table div.attach-row div div a { text-decoration: none; } div.attach-table div.attach-row div div span { font-weight: normal; } div.ygrp-file-title { font-weight: bold; } /* end of attachment style */ --> Hello, i cannot connect to a remote (Windows) located firebird 2.5 database anymore this problem is new and worked many years. if i try: c:\>isql [ip-address]:db-alias or c:\>isql [ip-address]/3050:db-alias i get the error: Statement failed, SQLSTATE = 08001 I/O error during "CreateFile (open)" operation for file "rdatabase" -Error while trying to open file -Das System kann die angegebene Datei nicht finden. Use CONNECT or CREATE DATABASE to specify a database if i try c:\>isql db-alias on the remote servers console i get the same error next test: copy-past the full-path from the aliases.conf to the console. This file exists (dir) and isql [pasted] works well too. if have set isc_user/password to sysdba/masterkey and added the servers bin dir to the path environment. Why doesn't this work anymore? Please help! ---------------c:\firebird\aliases.conf of the remote firebird server ----------------------- # # List of known database aliases # ------------------------------ # # Examples: # # dummy = c:\data\dummy.fdb # rdatabase = c:\data\rdatabase.fdb --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
