Re: [Firebird-devel] WNet and XNet

[Aleksey K. <kar...@cm...>]

"Alex Peshkov" <pe...@in...> wrote in message 
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> There is one more feature, impemented now using WNet. I mean automatic 
> redirection of attachment to database, located on network disk. For 
> example, after
> net use t: \\srv1\shr1
> attempt to open database t:\data\some.gdb will be redirected to server 
> "srv1", which will translate file name in shared directory "shr1" 
> (something like "\!shr1\!\data\some.gdb" is sent to the server) to local 
> file name.
> Certainly, there is absolutely no problem in using TCP/IP to connect to 
> the server, not named pipes. But please take into account, that most of 
> the code, performing detection of network drive on client and file name 
> translation on server, is WNet related.

What's the reason of this 'feature' besides cheating and confusing?

This "feature" is a support nightmare and is worth itself killing regardless 
of whether WNet itself should be kept or not. People connect to 
T:\share\path.gdb and have an illusion of locally using shared database 
file, as Access can do.

Regards,
Aleksey Karyakin