Connecting to Firebird DB located on smb share
lazarus / 16-Databases

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Orvel · 2014-10-30 09:35

I am developing a program on Windows 7. So far I had a temporary .fdb
file located in a folder. Until now, it was:

Hostname:"localhost"
DatabaseName:"C:\path\to\database.fdb"

I need to connect to the one located in a folder on the SMB share. The
server is a Linux server. I tried many things, without success.

Edit: I always get "No such file or directory" or "Failed to establish
a connection"

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ttomas · 2014-10-30 10:58

Don't do that, you will corrupt database file.
Firebird don't allow network share connection to db files.
You can force use of network share with firebird.conf file (read
documentation) but:
Don't do that, you will corrupt database file.

This is firebird support question, ask on firebird forum

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hrayon · 2014-10-30 11:06

Orvel,
Why not to install firebird server in Linux? They work nice together.

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Orvel · 2014-10-30 11:33

Somewhere I read that it does not matter how you connect and that it's
even better to it this way.

Edit: I think it was on their forums.

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Orvel · 2014-10-30 11:52

Nevermind then, gonna install it. Thanks