On Thu, 31 Oct 2002 15:35:53 -0500, you wrote:

>On Win 2000. The default should be to install as a service. Can you go
>to your services list and look for a running Firebird service?
>

Ah. Thank you, that's what I've missed. It's still pointing at my
(now deleted) Delphi 7 installation.


Brian.

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>Louis Kleiman
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>SSTMS, Inc.
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Brian Meadows [mailto:brian@...]
>Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2002 3:29 PM
>To: ib-support@yahoogroups.com
>Subject: [ib-support] Support woes with Firebird
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>Is anyone aware of any problems with installing the latest
>version of Firebird (Firebird-1.0.0.796-Win32.EXE) under Windows
>2000?
>
>I'm a total newcomer to Interbase (from Oracle, if it matters),
>but I have a client who wants some work doing on a Delphi program
>using ASTA, IBObjects and Firebird.
>
>I'm using Delphi 6 Pro. patched up to v6.2, and I've made sure
>that I've deleted all traces of the Delphi version of Interbase
>from my PC (plus see below). I'm running Win 2000 Pro SP3,
>Pentium III/600 MHz, 512 MB of RAM.
>
>The problem I see is that the installation *appears* to go
>through correctly (NOT using the Guardian service), but at the
>end, the Firebird program group contains only the uninstall link,
>and setting up a shortcut to \firebird\bin\ibserver.exe and
>trying to run the server from that gets me nowhere - if I try to
>run the program with the task manager open, I don't see the
>program come into the task list at any point.
>
>Just to make sure that I didn't have some vestige of an earlier
>version of Interbase on my system, I then tried installing the
>server on my wife's PC, which has never seen any version of
>either Delphi or Interbase. Same OS, a little lower spec of PC.
>Exactly the same results. :-(
>
>Anyone got any ideas?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Brian.

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