On Wed, 23 Nov 2011 14:52:30 -0000, "grip_2ls" <li...@2ls.com> 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
