Joe Martinez wrote:

> I have a customer whose FB server (0.9.4) won't start automatically. We
> check Server Manager, and it says that the server is stopped. We can
> click the "Start" button, and everything is fine, but it won't start up
> automatically at boot time. In Server Manager, the Startup Mode is set
> to "Automatic", so I don't understand what the problem is.
> Any ideas?

Start the services applet (Control Panel in Win/NT; somewhere else in
Win2k).
Check that "Interbase Guardian" has StartupType=Automatic, and
"Interbase Server" has StartupType=Manual. Maybe something has mangled
those entries.
On further thought ... I remember that when I used WinNT, IB Server
after some time suddenly refused to start as a service and I had to
start it manually (as an ordinary program). There was a simple fix for
this (maybe moving Interbase to a directory without <space> in the name
or name nor longer than 8 characters, don't remember now ...).

Regards,
Aage J.