RE: [Firebird-odbc-devel] Setup of services file

[Paul B. <pa...@wa...>]

> am I not right, when I have to write this entry into the services file
> of the client to be able to make TCP connections to the firebird server
> machine?

Yes you are right, but the installation of the Firebird Client should do
that - not the installation of the ODBC Driver.

> By the way: is it always necessary to have the GDS32.DLL on the client
> computer when I only want to use the ibphoenix ODBC driver?
> if yes, can I freely distribute this file?

Yup, the ODBC driver talks to this dll, which handles all of the calls to
the database. And yes it is freely distributable.

Regards
Paul