Subject Re: [firebird-support] Non-privileged Embedded usage
Author Dmitry Yemanov
Stefan,

> Let's say I install my application in a sub-folder of "Program Files"
> and I do this as an Administrator. fbembed.dll is then located in this
> Program folder. Normal (unprivileged) users do not have write
> permissions on that folder by default.
>
> What happens when the Embedded server tries to create files like the
> .log, .lck or .mon files? Will it (try to) create these in the program
> folder? Will that fail? If so, what can I do?

Embedded creates .lck, .evn and .mon in %TEMP%, IIRC.

As for the log file, if will be attempted to be created in the program
folder. However, I'm not sure it's going to be critical, maybe the
server will just continue working without throwing any error. Worth
checking in practice ;-)


Dmitry