changing database path in master.vdb

[Ruslan Zasukhin]

On 10/31/05 5:12 PM, "Chris Sheffield" <cmsheffield at gmail.com> wrote:

> I was just wondering if there was anyway to debug VServer so that I
> can find out what path is being set when accessing a database on a
> network path.  Is it possible there's some bug that's keeping the
> path from getting set correctly, which means VServer is not able to
> open the database, which would cause the error 3?  I looked up some
> information on file.open() and could not find anything indicating
> that it doesn't work using a network path.  So this should work, but
> it's not unfortunately.
> 
> I have played around a little more and find that if I have VServer
> hosted on a Mac OS X machine, with my database actually located on a
> Windows share, I can connect just fine that way.  So why wouldn't it
> work when VServer is hosted on a Windows machine?  Has no one ever
> tried this?  

I think yes. Agree very rare need.

> I did discover that it works fine if the database is on
> the local hard drive but outside the main Databases folder.

Yes this should work.

> No error  occurs.  It just doesn't work when the database is stored on some
> network path.
> 
> Any other ideas?

Chris, who knows. MAY BE for Windows it needs to use other Win32 API
function to open network file...

Another tip to try:
    make in the folder "Databases" alias to network file.
    then MAY BE Widows will open that alias correctly.


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