Sounds good. I have noted a decided lack of documentation on the embedded mode. Just coming from an ascii text datafile and sqlite background. Its a bit confusing. In their download area, they have an embedded server download for windows but not for linux. Will try with classic although gentoo loads superserver through portage.
On 3/11/06, Michael Van Canneyt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sat, 11 Mar 2006, Matt Henley wrote: > > > On 3/11/06, Michael Van Canneyt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > On Sat, 11 Mar 2006, Matthijs Willemstein wrote: > > > > > > > On Fri, 2006-03-10 at 17:08 -0600, Matt Henley wrote: > > > > > I installed Firebird Classic on my Windows XP machine. In Lazarus, I > > > > > added a TIBConnection to a blank form. I put the full path to an > > > > > example database (C:\Program > > > > > Files\Firebird\Firebird_1_5\examples\EMPLOYEE.FDB) in the Database > > > > > Field of the Object Inspector. I left the host blank as well as > > > > > UserName and Password as I have not set any of these and the Firebird > > > > > docs said they could be left blank. When I try to set the object to > > > > > active, I get a response that "unavailable database". > > > > You should add the hostname (or ip) before the database name. So > > > > something like: 192.168.1.1:C\Program Files\etc > > > > > > You can use 'localhost': > > > > > > localhost:C\Program Files\e > > > > > > should be fine. > > > > > > About the password, forget my previous remark, that was valid only for > > > embedded firebird. > > > for Classic Server or Superserver you allways need a username/password > > > pair. > > > > > > > Can you tell me the difference between the Classic and the embedded? > > In classic, there is still a separate server process running. > Your application communicates with the server application to access the > database. > For embedded, the application directly accesses the database file. > > > I am trying to use it as an embedded database for a program. Called as > > a library or dll. > > That is embedded. > > > I do not want a server process running separately. > > I think I need to go find the firebird docs as i did not see anyway to > > set a user or password. > > I recommend to run a server process anyway for development purposes, > this allows you to use a lot of tools such as IBadmin or FlameRobin, > IBOConsole or whatever. With embedded, these tools don't work properly. > > When deploying, then you can switch to embedded. For the actual code, > there is no difference anway. > > Michael. > > _________________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > "unsubscribe" as the Subject > archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives > _________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
