At 05:05 AM 10/03/2006, you wrote:

>What needs to happen to allow this to work with DatabaseAccess NONE?

The presence of the filepath in aliases.conf on the server
(case-sensitive, of course). And the alias provided to the
connection is case-sensitive too.

>And I'm assuming the firebird user doesn't need execute permission for
>the FDB file, just read/write.

Correct. But execute rights on all directories down the chain.

But if you were running Classic and trying to create databases
through a direct connection, you'd need more than that, since the
creation of the file would be by the logged in user, not the firebird
user. The logged-in user would need the same filesystem privileges
as the firebird user in that case, i.e., it would be necessary for
the firebird group to have those privileges and for the logged in
user to be in the group.

./heLen