Yea!
The solution was two fold from the post "And parts of this recent thread may be helpful."
My attempts to attach to the server were always to a physical drive..
- naming the server MUSIC from this suggestion "server:E:\Users Shared Folders\me\My Documents\Personal Video Database\movies.pvd - FB on a remote server, local path on server - WORKS!"
- addding the TCP port 3050 exception to the Windows firewall on the server.
My connection now looks like this:
MUSIC:E:\Our Data\PVD-Movies\MOVIES.PVD
Where MUSIC is the name of computer where the Firebird database service is running.
"Our Data" folder and the sub-folders under it are shared.
As for the mapped drive not working, I meant placing the database on a mapped drive without using the Firebird server. I have not tried accessing a mapped drive using the Firebird server.
Thanks for all your help and this great program... I will now spend s bit of time updating my imported movies, learning the program and adding PVD to my other computers.
DenS