On Thu, 30 May 2013 11:55:26 -0000
"Walter" <waltermarsi@...> wrote:

> this is the path of the fdb file:
> C:\Users\Desy\Documents\FB
>
> this is the aliases.conf (on the server machine):
> XFILES = C:\Users\Desy\Documents\FB\XFILES.FDB
>
> the error occours both with local or remote access.

> For example, I had Firebird installed on a Windows 2003 machine
> (named AD2K3), which has this aliases.conf: XFILES = C:\DATI\FB
> \XFILES.FDB
>
> And I can access it from any client with AD2K3:XFILES

How Firebird is being run on this box? With what credentials I mean?
Does it have access to the specified file (and all the enclosing
directories)?