Well yeah, and I saw the posting you did on a previous Classic install
version which switched me onto the "localhost:c:\..." file location
thing. However I have never selected the classic option on
installation from the installer or the zip and batch file install and
indeed made sure both 1.0.3 and the first 1.5 install were completely
removed in services, registry, and directory etc before the final
install of which I posted the console output.

The services applet for Firebird Server Default Instances properties
shows this as the dispay name:

Firebird Server - DefaultInstance

and this as the executable:

C:\Program Files\Firebird\Firebird_1_5\bin\fbserver.exe -s

And for Firebird Guardian Default Instance as:

C:\Program Files\Firebird\Firebird_1_5\bin\fbguard.exe -s

When I look at taskmgr on the w2k box I see a single fbserver and
fbguard process running while I have 5 open JDBC connections to it
from a Java process running on a separate machine. All this implies to
me, newbie that I am, that it is the superserver architecture.

How else may I tell if I have the classic version installed?

Anyway I am running now and this post may help others who have the
same strange error. I'm thinking that my machine's network
configuration is such that it returns something odd for getHostByName
or whatever call is being used in gsec and isql for default host
network name.

Thanks for the reply,
Chris

> Yes: it looks as though you have installed the Classic version. If

you've

> been doing things as you described, you've no doubt got a mish-mash of
> stuff on the hard-disk now. Check your Services applet to see what

you're

> actually running.
>
> /heLen