At 05:09 PM 3/05/2004 +0200, you wrote:

>Hi,
>
>Is there anyone that can guide on how to get FireBird 1.5 up and running ?

Have you read the installation notes in the release notes document?

>What I want to do is the following:
>
>Upgrading from InterBase Open Source to FireBird 1.5.
>
>
>Steps that I have performed are:
>
>* UnInstalled InterBase

Check that the old InterBase client gds32.dll is gone. Look at its
property sheet to find creation date and version. You must either delete
or rename it.

>* Downloded FireBird 1.5 and got fb_inet_server.exe and fbguard.exe
>running

You did not mention running the installer. Did you do so?


Don't try to run fbguard.exe. It belongs to the Superserver, not
Classic. If you are familiar with IB, you would do better to begin with
Superserver.

What OS platform are you installing to?

>Using the Quick-Start-Guide and trying to change password for SYSDBA I get
>the following error:
>
>Unavailable database
>
>Unable to open database

The Quick Start Guide is unfortunately still at Fb 1.0. A lot of things
have changed in Fb 1.5. The QSG won't be updated until near the end of the
month, when I get back from the Fulda conference.

>Using EMS QuickDesk on registrered databases I get this message:
>
>Your user name and password are not defined. Ask your databse administrator
>to set up a Firebird login

That means the client you are using can't find the Firebird 1.5 root
directory and (most likely) you are still using the InterBase
client. After renaming or deleting the InterBase client, you will need to
run the program instclient.exe, to build a compatible client and place it
where Quickdesk expects it to be, the system directory. See the release
notes AND the document README.Win32LibraryInstallation.txt in the .\doc
directory of the Firebird installation.

>I guess something has gone mixed up in the registry, but what shall I do to
>get things to work ?

First, read and understand the release notes.

Uninstall everything. How you do that depends on what means you used to
install. Get rid of the IB client.

Then start again, do a clean install using the Win installer, install
Superserver, and use the default location, i.e. don't try to push Fb 1.5
into your old Interbase location.

By default, the Fb 1.5 client (fbclient.dll) goes into the \bin directory
of the Firebird root. If you plan to use old tools (not Fb 1.5-aware) then
you must take care to take the options for installing the client as
gds32.dll, into the system directory.

As mentioned earlier, if you get this wrong during installation, you
can go in afterwards and run instclient.exe to fix it.

/heLen