Thank you Helen,

but I don't think this is the problem. I tried with the generated
password I found in SYSDBA.password without success. Next I tried to
change the password using the provided script and got the error I quoted
in my original file. Lastly I tried to edit the password file directly,
but I still can't connect to Firebird from my windows client. I checked
to make sure Firebird is running (rcfirebird status), it is running.
What can I do so that firebird accepts my login?

greetings
Hans

Helen Borrie wrote:

> At 04:44 PM 6/09/2004 +0200, you wrote:
> > Hi everybody,
> >
> > After deleteing an older FirebirdSS package on SuSE 9.1 I
> > downloaded the rpm from ibphoenix and installed FirebirdSS-1.5.1
> > and tried to connect to the employee-database.
> >
> > This is the error message I received in IBExpert:
> >
> > 192.168.100.5:/opt/firebird/examples/employee.fdb
> >
> > Connecting... Failed!
> > ------------------------------------
> > Unsuccessful execution caused by a system error that precludes
> > successful execution of subsequent statements.
> > Your user name and password are not defined. Ask your database
> > administrator to set up a Firebird login.
> >
> > Attempting to connect to services manager... Failed!
> >
> > When I run the changeDBAPassword.sh script I get the following
> > output:
> >
> > Please enter current password for SYSDBA user: password
>
> This will be wrong. Use cat to read the auto-generated password that
> is in the text file /opt/firebird/SYSDBA.password
>
> ./heLen