Brock,

> Firebird version 1.0 setup as service
> Server: NT 4.0, sp 6.
> error: I/O error for file "\temp\ib_sort_i00122" error while trying to
> write to file. The device does not recognize the command"
> Occasionally, get "\winnt\" instead of "\temp"

How much free space is available?

> I tried changing ibconfig to reroute the tmp directory with
> this but it still failed.
> #TMP_DIRECTORY 50000000 "d:\apptemp"

First, you need to remove the "#" character.

Second, an allocation of only 50,000,000 bytes for temp files is not
very large, consider making it larger.


Sean