At 11:32 AM 25/02/2006, Adam wrote:

>Second, the user Firebird is running as (normally LocalSystem) must
>have read/write file system access to this file.

Localsystem on Win2K and above has unbounded privileges, even beyond
those of Administrator. Unless you changed the service ownership to
a user that doesn't have Administrator privileges, then filesystem
privs won't be an issue. However, if you're running Firebird as an
application in a non-Administrator user's application space, or
you're running the embedded server, then they will be an issue, when
you have enabled ExternalFileAccess in firebird.conf.

./heLen