--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, "Graham" <yahoo@...> wrote:

>
> I'm trying to setup an odbc connection to a database .. with the
> lastest stable firebird install.
>
> This is on a virtual private server running windows 2003.
>
> If I setup the odbc connection like this
>
> localhost:c:\path\to\database.fdb
>
> I get this error when I test the connection:
>
> Operating system directive CreateFile failed
>
> The requested operation can not be performed on a file with a
> user-mapped section open.
>
> If I setup the path like this:
>
> c:\path\to\database.fdb
>
> then the connection tests successfully, but I then can't sucessfully
> start my application as a service using Firedaemon.
>
> The database is not in a shared directory.
>
> Suggestions?

Probably a permissions thing. What user is the Firebird service
installed as? Does this user have FULL permissions to the folder the
database is in?

Adam