> >connectiing form a client delphi6 application using
> >
> >IBCompnents, to a remote firebird database, after the
> >
> >request of login infornatoins,I get this error 'cannot attach to
> >
> >security database'. After that the engine freeze and I must
> >
> >rebbot the machine to restart.
> >
> Do you connect by tcp/ip or netbios? I had the same problem, connecting
> with netbios - it was gone, when I changed connection tcp/ip. Another
> way to go around it was to make directory of security.fdb shared on the
> network when using netbios.
> However I still do not have any clue what was causing it, and making it
> freeze.
>
> Grzegorz Modlinski

If it was freezing on a share? Was in WinServer2003? Did you have disk
shadow active? If so that's why.
Alan