Remote connection problem

[kerino]

Hi, I've been trying for a week now to access a Firebird DB over a LAN without any success. I'm running Delphi5 Pro and Zeos 6.6.5. Once PC is running XP and the other WIN2000.
I have established that the 2 PC's can ping each other, and that port 3050 is not blocked.
Both PC's are running Firebird 2.1 as a service.
In the TZconnection I enter the HostName as 192.168.1.105 (the other PC), and in the Port I enter 3050. I navigate using the browser to the database (in this case \\Mesh2XT\roes\ljm.fdb) and try to connect at design time, and get the error "Unable to complete network request to host" ...."connected party did not properly respond" etc.
I'm all out of ideas
Can anyone help me please?
Many thanks - Kerin

[kerino]

I have found the answer.
I have to use the local path name on the remote PC instead of the remote name i.e. C:\roes\ljm.fdb.
Thanks for looking
Kerin

[mdaems]

Indeed

There's even a better solution (in my opinion). If you use the aliases file in your firebird installation your client doesn't have to know the physical location of the database on the server. So the db admin can move the file around without the clients needing new configurations.

See http://www.janus-software.com/fbmanual/ ... in&topic=4

Mark

[kerino]

Thanks Mark - that is better.