At 07:47 PM 17/08/2003 +0000, you wrote:

> >>What have you done so far to establish that it's not running?
>
>First I checked for the Guardian tray icon.

You don't get a Guardian tray icon when installing as a service.

>Next I looked in Control
>Panel, Serives. It showed that the server hadn't been started. I tried
>to start it, but it failed to load.

Is it possible that you attempted the installation while not logged in with
Admin rights?

> >>What version of the server did you install?
>
>I ran the RC4 Win32.exe version of the install and installed Firebird
>as a service. I don't believe that I had a choice of Superserver or
>Classic?? What else could be wrong?

I didn't use the installer for RC 4 but I thought it had the option of
Classic or SS...could you reboot the system and check whether there is a
service running named fb_inet_server? That is the Classic server. It
doesn't use Guardian or FBserver.exe, but it is started by instsvc.exe.

I'll download the RC4 installer and check it...

heLen