Problem solved :), Win ACL user and permissions were correct (this worried
me as the server was set up as per a paper I wrote on how to set up FB on
Windows). The problem was a combination of a couple of factors, on the
server firebird.conf was set to only allow db access to alias'd files
(DatabaseAccess = NONE), when I tried remote test I used alias name to
create db and this worked, when on local server I used the path/db.name to
try and create a DB.

The path/db.name was correctly alias'd within aliases.conf, however FB won't
allow you to create a DB using the full path/db.name when DatabaseAccess =
NONE, you can only use the alias name.

The other factor was tiredness, the client I was talking to was in the US,
it has been late (in the UK) when I was trying to solve the problem which is
never good after a days work. Lesson Learnt :-)

Rgds

Si Carter
TECT Software Ltd
http://www.tectsoft.net/