waow ! i have learned something today :)
i didn't know that envirenment options are associated to the process and not
to the machine .
anyway many many thanks it's solved now ... finally :)
if anyone else have this problem maybe in the future, this is what worked for
me
/*this
> ---In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, wrote :
> anyway, since i cannot control where fbembedded put it's lock and trace
> files,
Does you read what Mark wrote about FIREBIRD_LOCK environment variable ?
> my only option now is to build firebird from source and change