At 09:39 AM 23-08-02 -0500, you wrote:

>Helen,
>The drive/database is located in the /usr/<directory>/test directory. The
>database file name is 1.gdb. I've renamed it from test.idb to 1.gdb for
>testing purposes.

But if your /usr/ filesystem is a Samba share then it is not on the
server's physical filesystem. The server has to be able to control disk
I/O itself because, inside the database file, it allocates, fills and
refills blocks by its own rules.

heLen