Helen Borrie wrote:

> 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?

Thanks, Helen

It's the latest FB. Actually we have got over this hurdle here. I had first
looked for the solution in groups.google, but the atkins one doesn't appear to
be included. We found the answer (editing firebird.conf) in the online searching
of Yahoo groups.

=== Mark