Achim Kalwa wrote:

>
>>I've just installed the latest RC2 with the installer on XP. I told it to run as
>>an application, so that I had the icon in the system tray. I tried shutting it
>>down, which it did. But double clicking on fbgard or fbserver in explorer didn't
>>start it up again. What are you supposed to do?
>
> The installer should have created a "Firebird"-entry in program files
> group. There you'll find an item to start fbserver.

Yes, I know where the files are. I looked in the Firebird/Firebird_1_5/bin.
There is no obvious command to restart it. I had already stopped it using the
menu from the system tracty icon.

> To run fbserver.exe as an application, you have to add "-a" to the command
> line: fbserver.exe -a

Thanks. So you don't think we should just run it by double clicking on the exe
in explorer? That is what I have done on my win 98 machine.

> For Windows XP, I recommend to run fbserver as a service, not as application.

OK. Why is that?

> To help you start/stop the server or configure startup options, you may
> download my firebird control panel applet:
> www.achim-kalwa.de/fbmgr.html

Thanks, I'll look into it.

Regards,

Mark