At 01/02/2002 12:32 PM (Wednesday), Leyne, Sean wrote:

>I'm wondering if the recent changes to the way that FB opens the
>database files, shared read vs. the old shared read/write (to fix the
>problem with ambiguous connection strings), has also fixed the problem
>with network files?
>
>It would seem to be a logical outcome that a file residing on a network
>device would , now, only be write accessible from a single computer.

It would, indeed, if you could trust the network file server/OS/sharing
protocols to work correctly. I think it would take some significant testing
to confirm it, especially since there are known problems from the past.
Testing must include heavy load, variety of client OS, etc.