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THis sounds like: <br />
a) the database is on a mapped-drive, this is not permitted<br />
b) the database has not been excluded from virus-scanning<br />
c) you are attempting to connect without including the machine name in the path, please show your connection string<br />

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THis sounds like:
a) the database is on a mapped-drive, this is not permitted
b) the database has not been excluded from virus-scanning
c) you are attempting to connect without including the machine name in the path, please show your connection string


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This is a know problem for local connections in terminal services, try changing the firebird.conf file add or change the following line:<br />
IpcName = Global\FIREBIRD
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This is a know problem for local connections in terminal services, try changing the firebird.conf file add or change the following line:
IpcName = Global\FIREBIRD

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Closed, 500 points refunded.<br />
Vee_Mod<br />
Community Support Moderator
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Closed, 500 points refunded.
Vee_Mod
Community Support Moderator

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I am running Firebird 1.5.3 on a windows2003 server with terminal services. Firebird is installed as a service. The frontend of the program is written in Delphi7. Clients connect through with remote desktop via terminal services. When I try to run the application I get the following error when the program reaches the point where it tries to open the firebird database: &quot;operating system directive CreateFile failed. The requested operation cannot be performed on a file with a user-mapped section open&quot;
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I am running Firebird 1.5.3 on a windows2003 server with terminal services. Firebird is installed as a service. The frontend of the program is written in Delphi7. Clients connect through with remote desktop via terminal services. When I try to run the application I get the following error when the program reaches the point where it tries to open the firebird database: "operating system directive CreateFile failed. The requested operation cannot be performed on a file with a user-mapped section open"

Firebird error with Terminal Services

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