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[Firebird-odbc-devel] new fbclient for new FBServer does not work with ODBC

[André K. C. <Kna...@be...>]

Dear all,

I am trying to help a friend who experiences a strange problem, but
can't pin it down so I am asking here if someone might have a hint
what's going on.

Situation:
- installed additional 2.1.3 Server (so far only 1.5.x has been
installed in network) on a Win32 machine (Server2005)
- copied fbclient.dll from new 2.1.3 Server to local clients
- when selecting the new fbclient.dll in ODBC-DSN, connection to the
server will be rejected. Selecting the old fbclient.dll again will
work.
- happens only on some machines, on some others, both versions of
fbclient.dll will connect
- no problems when using .net provider, only with ODBC (IIRC, .net
provider does not use fbclient.dll???)

We already checked the following:
- All components are 32-Bit
- No personal AV or Firewall is installed at all
- Tried after fresh reboot of system
- ODBC drivers are up to date

Where can I go on searching for the problem? I never experienced
anything like this.

Please excuse me, if this is the wrong list. I am afraid that Helen
would send me here anyway if I would ask in "general".

thanks!

André



  

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Re: [Firebird-odbc-devel] new fbclient for new FBServer does not work with ODBC

[Paul R. <pr...@ib...>]

On Wednesday 09 December 2009, André Knappstein, Controlling wrote:
> - copied fbclient.dll from new 2.1.3 Server to local clients

You can't do that. Or rather you can but it probably won't work on its own 
due to missing run time libraries. It would probably be quicker just to do 
an install of the client from the binary installer. Alternatively you can 
play around with installing the vcredist for VS2005. It is documented in 
the installation_readme.txt


Paul
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Re: [Firebird-odbc-devel] new fbclient for new FBServer does not work with ODBC

[André K. C. <Kna...@be...>]

The fbclient had indeed been just *copied* in all cases, not
*installed*. My friend says that he is always doing it like this and
that it never made any problem until now.

Sorry that I bothered you and did not think of this possibility myself
before.

ciao,
André

  
  
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PR> On Wednesday 09 December 2009, André Knappstein, Controlling wrote:
>> - copied fbclient.dll from new 2.1.3 Server to local clients

PR> You can't do that. Or rather you can but it probably won't work on its own
PR> due to missing run time libraries. It would probably be quicker just to do
PR> an install of the client from the binary installer. Alternatively you can
PR> play around with installing the vcredist for VS2005. It is documented in
PR> the installation_readme.txt


PR> Paul

Re: [Firebird-odbc-devel] new fbclient for new FBServer does not work with ODBC

[André K. C. <Kna...@be...>]

Thanks Paul,
I got the wording wrong. I meant of course that the client-dll had
been installed using InstClient.exe from the server's \BIN folder.

But now that you say it... I will ask my friend if he really really
did the install...

  
  
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PR> On Wednesday 09 December 2009, André Knappstein, Controlling wrote:
>> - copied fbclient.dll from new 2.1.3 Server to local clients

PR> You can't do that. Or rather you can but it probably won't work on its own
PR> due to missing run time libraries. It would probably be quicker just to do
PR> an install of the client from the binary installer. Alternatively you can
PR> play around with installing the vcredist for VS2005. It is documented in
PR> the installation_readme.txt


PR> Paul

Re: [Firebird-odbc-devel] new fbclient for new FBServer does not work with ODBC

[Roman S. <rom...@gm...>]

André Knappstein wrote:
> Thanks Paul,
> I got the wording wrong. I meant of course that the client-dll had
> been installed using InstClient.exe from the server's \BIN folder.
> 
> But now that you say it... I will ask my friend if he really really
> did the install...

I guess Paul talked about problem with manifest. FB 2.1 is built by 
VS.2005 but 2.0 by VS.2003. VS.2005 uses dll manifests and if you don't 
have manifest or correctly installed vcredist (w\o VC.2005 SP1) you 
can't use binaries built by VS.2005.

So correctly installed fbclient in your case is not installed by 
InstClient.exe but with correct vcredist or with needed dll's and manifests.

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Roman Simakov