David Barrett wrote:

> Are there any known issues installing Firebire on Windows Server
> 2003 Web Edition?

Which Firebird version? What architecture? CS or SS?

> I have just rented a web server that I want to
> use to host a web application that will be locally accessing a
> database. I have it working on my development machine at home with
> Firebird so I just installed Firebird on the the web server. It
> shows in services as running but Guardian comes up with a red X on
> the icon and the button shows "Start" but pressing the button
> changes nothing. Ping localhost works. IBConfig comes up
> with "database unavailable".

How about:
telnet localhost 3050

or

netstat -a | grep 3050

I have recently installed Firebird SS 1.0.3 on W2k3 Server edition at my
friend's PC.

Things to look out:
1. Shutdown shadowing (VSS) on the partitons where database files are
2. Set w2k3 to "Optimize for applications"
3. Try to run FB as application (not as service)
4. Make sure you have gds_db entry in services file
5. Give .fdb extension to database files
6. Try to have at least one connection open to the database all the time.

HTH

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Milan Babuskov
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