changing database path in master.vdb

[Chris Sheffield]

Sorry, reported that wrong.  I get error 5 when trying with a UNC path.

On Oct 28, 2005, at 10:48 AM, Chris Sheffield wrote:

> Well, I tried it and can't seem to make it work.  I keep getting  
> "error 3" when trying to connect to the database, which I'm  
> assuming means Vserver is not finding it.  Any ideas?  In  
> master.vdb I've set the path to my database as Z:\rndb\rn.vdb.  The  
> Z drive is mapped to a shared folder on another Windows machine.  I  
> also tried using a UNC path (\\chris2\SharedDocs\rndb\rn.vdb), but  
> I got error 123 when I tried that, which I have no idea what that  
> means.
>
> Is there any way to find out what path VServer is using to connect  
> to a database?  Is it possible there's some bug that's causing the  
> file path to not get set correctly?  If I could find that out, I  
> could hack it in master.vdb so the path would be correct.  This is  
> only for one customer right now, so as long as we could make it  
> work, that'd be fine.
>
>
> On Oct 28, 2005, at 10:17 AM, Ruslan Zasukhin wrote:
>
>
>> On 10/28/05 7:12 PM, "Chris Sheffield" <cmsheffield at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I'm hoping someone can answer this question for me.  I'm using
>>> VServer with Valentina 1.x and Revolution.  I have a customer who
>>> would like to store their data on a separate Novell server, but they
>>> would still use a Windows box to host the actual VServer executable.
>>> I know you can use master.vdb to customize where to store database
>>> files.
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>>> What I'm wondering is if the paths entered into master.vdb
>>> can be network paths.  Can I use a mapped network drive or even a  
>>> UNC
>>> path so that the database files can be stored on a separate "server"
>>> machine?
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Nobody have try this Chris. So I cannot say you yes or no.
>> You should try.
>>
>> Vserver extract path from masterdb, and I think it simply pass it to
>> WIN API function
>>
>>     file.open( path )
>>
>> So there are chances that Windows correctly open your network path.
>>
>>
>> -- 
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Ruslan Zasukhin
>> VP Engineering and New Technology
>> Paradigma Software, Inc
>>
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