--- Helen Borrie wrote:

> The version that is stored in your Firebird \bin directory is fine

but it

> needs to be in the system directory. I recently installed Firebird

on a

> brand-new installation of Win2K (and the Win2K install didn't

install those

> libraries at all). When I installed Firebird, the msvcrt.dll that

is in

> the Firebird \bin directory was not found and I had the same problem

you

> had.

Did you try creating a "fbserver.local" file?
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnsetup/html/dlldanger1.asp
http://www.serverwatch.com/tutorials/article.php/1477031

It was once suggested to use this approach in Firebird
installations, but for reasons unknown to me, not done.

Regards,
Peter Jacobi