--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, Helen Borrie <helebor@t...>
wrote:

> Possibly you have a broken setup for the client libraries. For

1.5,
with

> these existing client apps, you need to have *both* the gds32.dll

and

> fbclient.dll that are in the installation kit in your system

directory. At

> this stage, I suggest the following:
>
> 1. Check in your system directory that both dlls are there.
>
> 2. If so, look at the property sheet of gds32.dll. It should show

a File

> version number 6.3.0.0, Product version 1.5.0.3815 and Special

build

> description 'Firebird SQL server Release Candidate 6'.
>
> 3. If not the above, then rename gds32.dll to something like gds32.

dll.old

> and copy over the two dlls from the /bin directory of your Firebird
> installation.
>
> If the rename and copy won't work, it means gds32.dll is already

loaded and

> you'll need to reboot in safe mode to do this stuff.
>
> heLen

heLen,
Thank you for your prompt and detailed reply. I checked my
\WINNT\System32 directory, found an older version of gds32.dll there,
but no fbclient.dll. I renamed the gds32.dll to gds32.dll.old as
suggested. It worked fine without a reboot. For good measure, I
stopped, the Firebird Guardian and the Firebird Server, ran instsvc
remove, instreg remove, instreg install and instsvc install, and then
restarted the Firebird Server. At that point, Firebird Guardian
would
not run, I assume because it is not needed on a Win2k machine and I
am
starting to get things closer to being correct. I rebooted and
attempted to run IBSQL. Still got the same error.
At http://www.delphifaq.com/fq/q1050.shtml, I see that a runtime 217
at program initialization could be caused by these problems:

- unexpected date formats

- disk or registry accesses where the user has not sufficient
privileges

- BDE Net Dir mismatches

I don't know why the first would happen here if it does not happen at
my computer at work. I log in in the Administrator's group. BDE
seems unlikely. So I am still lost. I hope I can rely on you for
more help.

Thank you again.

-Jack