From: "Joe Martinez" <joe@...>

> One of my customers is getting this error message on a new Windows ME
> box when trying to run my application:
>
> Error opening database
> Vendor initialization failed
> cannot load IDAPI service library
> File: GDS32.dll
>
> This is using Firebird, using BDE with SQL Links, developed with BCB4.
>
> Does anyone know what the problem could be?

Is the IB client software installed properly? Are the entries in the Hosts
and Services files entered correctly?

Woody