At 08:11 AM 22/10/2006, you wrote:

>Frank,
>
>you can't create (or connect to) a database on a remote drive

..read this as "on a Samba share or NFS drive".

A remote *client* can create or connect to a database on a remote
*server*, of course. It must do so via a TCP/IP connection to the
server that specifies a connection to a physical drive that is
controlled directly by the same host machine as the Firebird host.

> or a UNC path.

>A database MUST reside on a local drive.

"On a drive that is local to the server."

And don't forget that the 'firebird' user must have at least group
ownership permissions to the filesystem location and at least
group-level rwx permissions to the directory where the database file
is to be created/accessed.

./heLen