--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, Alex Taylor <basswar@v...> wrote:

> Hi Rafael!
>
> I ran into the same problem. The trick was that the exe installer
> haven't written over the gds32.dll located in the system dir, I had to
> manually overwrite it. Because of gds32.dll is present for backward
> compatibility and contains references to the fbclient.dll, You need the
> appropriate version in your system dir. Try use the zipped package and
> then manually copy the gds32.dll and fbclient.dll from the Fb \bin
> directory.
>
> Regards: Alex Taylor

I'm using the zip package on W2K as well, but I never copied the
gds32.dll to winnt\system32 and everything seems to work pretty well!
The installation notes sais to either leave it in "program directory"
or in system32. And as I'm always reluctant to copy something into
system32 which is not part of the OS, I left it where it is.

But then I'm not using any client software other then JDBC...

Thomas