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Hi,

I came across this code example in the Xbase 1.90.355 documentation of the USE command.

PROCEDURE Main
LOCAL oSession

oSession := DacSession():New("DBE=ADSDBE;SERVER=\\ALASKA01\VOL1")

USE "\\ALASKA01\VOL1\Customer" SHARED VIA (oSession)


RETURN

I have tried opening a table on an Advantage server using the same approach. I am setting up a web server and I am trying to avoid using a drive letter (which works) on the advice of the network security technicians since according to them it creates a vulnerability. I would like to be able to use the form USE \\servername\path\tablename but I am getting the error message Error Base\0 Dbusearea.

I have also tried SET DEFAULT TO \\servername\path but this does not work.

Does anyone have any experience with using a UNC path in this way?

S Lorde

UNC-pathes work well, even with SET PATH or Set(_SET_PATH). Try this:
or this

You may also need to explicitly specify the port, default of 6262.

\\servername:6262\volumename.

We have do do that for instances of connections between our local office, central wisconsin and our Chicago IL web servers.

I made the code changes as suggested. The file opened only when the port was specified. Additionally, apparently because of how the network is setup, I had to use the server IP address instead of the name of the server in the path. At least it worked. Thanks a lot guys.

S Lorde

Create an ADS.INI if possible to a) improve performance while detecting the server and b) avoid adress conflicts.

The configuration of my standard program version uses the Ads.ini file in which the server IP is specified. I will experiment with other settings for this file in the web version to see what is possible given the network architecture that I have been given. Thanks, Tom.

S Lorde