Thank you anyway for your time and efforts. Maybe the BDE (in general) is the problem.

Wolfgang

> Tux:/usr/local/fbk/wawi.gdb (server name/full path);
> The programmer asked me, why I put localhost in the connection string,
> since in his opinion the absolut path should suffice.

I'm afraid that you are doing things the right way. There is a problem
with firebird when connecting with different connection strings, it
thinks you are accessing two seperate databases and uses two lock
managers, which corrupts your database.

Sorry to waste your time with this.

Barry


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