At 04:01 PM 13/08/2003 +1000, you wrote:

>Hi,
>
>to speed up the process of INSERTing a large amount of data, which has been
>taking 7 mins, we are trying external files. Whenever we try to execute the
>CREATE TABLE ... command we get
>
>ISC error code 335544831
>"Access to external file ... is denied by server administrator"
>
>Can anyone help with this?

What version of IB? Fb are you using?

heLen