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

[Thomas V. <tv...@ar...>]

Am Mit, 2004-02-11 um 11.22 schrieb Paul Beach:
> > 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.
> 
But this would mean, that I have to do a firebird client installation on
every machine that wants to use the ODBC driver?
(is this normal for other DBMS's??)

thanks for your information


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Thomas Viohl <tv...@ar...>