> > The application where the server has been embeded must run from CD- ROM,
> so the database file will be *ALLWAYS* opened in the read-only mode.
>
> Okay. In this very special case, there is no problem in using multiple
> engines on the same GDB file.
> Therefor it should be possible to avoid the lock. But I cannot
> tell you how.
> Check firebird-devel on this.
>
> Regards,
> Steffen

Is that the
RemoteFileOpenAbility
setting?
Alan