At 05:07 p.m. 7/10/2015, Claudio Valderrama C. wrote: >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Helen Borrie [mailto:hele...@tpg.com.au] >> Sent: MiƩrcoles, 07 de Octubre de 2015 0:45 >> >> I wonder who is the "user" to which Windows is denying access >> everywhere except within Firebird's own root structure. On >> my system, I am user 'helen', which is an administrator. I >> seem to recall from some ancient discussion that the Firebird >> service runs under user 'localsystem'. I don't know how that >> applies to Fb 2.5, though. > >I forgot that most people run FB as a service. :-) > >For what I understand the config should read >DatabaseAccess = Restrict h:\externalfiles > >Can you have a peek at the permissions for that directory? Is SYSTEM listed >among the authorized users? I would be bold and use >SYSTEM -> Full Access
Not being bold, actually - SYSTEM has cascading full access on all my partitions. As to the format - copy/pasting from firebird.conf: "# ---------------------------- # External File Paths/Directories # # ExternalFileAccess may be None, Full or Restrict. If you choose # Restrict, provide ';'-separated trees list, where external files # are stored. Relative paths are treated relative to RootDirectory entry # (see above). Default value 'None' disables any use of external files # on your site. To specify access to specific trees, enum all required # paths (for Win32 this may be something like 'C:\ExternalTables', # for unix - '/db/extern;/mnt/extern'). # Hence the single-quotes. And here is the current configuration, which works: # ExternalFileAccess = Restrict 'ExternalFiles'; I'm certain this worked right in v.2.1. And probably 2.5 on Linux. I think Linux was the only platform where I had v.2.5 when I was testing the examples for TFB2e in 2013. I might have had it on Windows XP at that time, too, I just don't remember. It's only now, with reviewing the new Language Reference, that we are coming across a few "undocumented features". I'm starting to wonder if this might be yet another one. Helen ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Full-scale, agent-less Infrastructure Monitoring from a single dashboard Integrate with 40+ ManageEngine ITSM Solutions for complete visibility Physical-Virtual-Cloud Infrastructure monitoring from one console Real user monitoring with APM Insights and performance trend reports Learn More http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=247754911&iu=/4140 Firebird-Devel mailing list, web interface at https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/firebird-devel