At 02:47 AM 25/11/2004 +0000, you wrote:

>This is odd. I am wondering if anyone else has experienced this.
>
>The firebird control center has a 'X' through the firebird logo, and
>the button says start, but the label says "The Firebird Service is
>running".
>
>I had an error message that the connection was closed which is why I
>went to investigate. The start button does nothing.
>
>Windows 2003 Server, Firebird 1.5 running in Service mode.
>
>Restarting Firebird didn't solve problem.
>
>Any ideas? Could it be a security setting or missing files?

Possibly you didn't install the registry key. Firebird itself doesn't need
it, but I think those control panel applets do.

You could try running the program instreg.exe, from your \bin
directory. Run it without switches first to get the online help.

./hb