Aliases.conf

Hello,
I use Rad 2007 with FIBPlus and I defined a new path in the aliases.conf like that

db1 = e:\data\my app\db\mydb.fdb

I try to access the database like this localhost:db1 but never worked I always get error message "connection authoriation failure file is not a valid database"

any advice ?

Maybe you need quotes around the filename (because of the space in "my app").

Alternatively you can try to move the file to a path without a space in the directory names

this dont make sense because customers will install the app any where I cant force them to use specific folder

I use FIBPlus by the way and it register aliases in the registry and it seems it did not read them from aliases.conf

I just tried this with my Firebird (2.0) installation and having a space in the file name (or path) doesn't seem to be a problem (even without quotes).

Are the permissions set correctly, so that the firebird server (or your application if you are using embedded firebird) can actually write to that file?

Is e: a real hard disk or a network drive?
As far as I remember FB cannot use files on a network drive.

e is not a network H.D and no permission problem

maybe you can try like this 127.0.0.1:db1

thanks alot it work fine now after downloading latest firebird version
2.1 I also make sure to allow access for FB in my firewall,

Firebird and Firewall they dont like each other