On Wed, 23 Nov 2011 14:52:30 -0000, "grip_2ls" <lists@...> wrote:

> Lester
>
> It is the exact opposite of what we expected too!
>
> I should state up front that I did not setup this machine and the person
> that did has left. However, I do know that the system is running

Firebird

> Classic 2.1 and that we are connecting from a Delphi client running on
> Windows 7.
>
> Looking at the Linux machine if I run blkid I get the following:
>
>
> /dev/cciss/c0d0p1: UUID="53d1653c-eb39-4f38-8291-942cd918694f"

TYPE="xfs"

> /dev/cciss/c0d0p5: UUID="61c6f303-0576-4bbc-8f56-164968ac9684"

TYPE="swap"

> /dev/sda1: LABEL="HP v210w" UUID="D06E29286E2908B4" TYPE="ntfs"
>
> This implies that the majority of the disk is formatted as ntfs. I

believe

> that this is because the machine is also used as samba mounts for

Windows,

> but I could be wrong on this point.
>
> Does any of the above provide any pointers?

You will want to look on what disk/partition the database is located. If
it is the NTFS one, that will be your problem. As far as I know NTFS
support under Linux is spotty and doesn't really perform that well.

Mark