Subject A Request to Ken Mayer From Akshat Kapoor <akshat.kapoor@kapoorsons.in> Date Fri, 12 Jan 2018 23:20:03 +0530 Newsgroups dbase.getting-started Dear Sir, I went through all your books (Volume 1 /volume 2 /the dbase book plus ) but could not find even a single reference of how to connect to a database on a server from a remote computer over LAN. The topic of setting up Firebird is there, There is a chapter on working in Shared environment (with a brief reference to UNC path) but otherwise there is absolutely no reference of how to access .dbf tables / firebird over network. This may not have been a necessity some time ago. But most of the programmers do require it today. I have setup firebird on one system, have successfully set the active property to true of a ADO database but have been unable to access it over network. I installed mysql server using XAMPP accessed / altered tables with help from Ronnie but I am stuck there also in respect to connection with data on server. I have been successful in accessing mysql server tables (data is visible in grid on the form). I accessed the table using php from a client computer but failed when trying to do the same using Dbase. I hope many more share my sentiments Regards Akshat