> Because it´s a network storage.

Which means?

> > > In our system there is only one process opening the database. We
> > > were thinking of storing the file in a disc in other machine and
> > > accessing it by a mapped drive just for security reasons. What
> are
> > > the riscs of doing this ( for the risk-affine people :-) )?
> >
> > Install Firebird on that machine and run it like a normal
> > client/server system without access to the datafile at all.

With regards,

Martijn Tonies
Database Workbench - developer tool for InterBase, Firebird, MySQL & MS SQL
Server.
Upscene Productions
http://www.upscene.com