Is Firebird running in services? I have personally found the control
panel applet says funny things on 2003 server (but I know it is a
security permissions thing for us).
If Firebird service is running, does it have full permissions to the
fdb file?
Can you telnet into localhost:3050?
Paste your command line for gsec here so you can be sure it is
nothing silly.

Adam

--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, "jlwa1ker" <walker@j...>
wrote:

>
>
> I have Firbird 1.5.2 installed on a Windows 2003 server running as

a

> service. The service applet shows that firebird is running and the
> firebird log file doesn't show any errors. However, if I just
> type "gsec" on a command line I get:
>
> unavailable database
> unable to open database
>
> However, if I run Firebird as an application, everything works

fine.

> Unfortunately, I'm using it as the back end of a web app so I can't
> count on a particular user being logged in all the time -- nor

would

> I want to.
>
> I suspect that it's a permissions thing, but I have tried granting
> all kinds of permissions to the firebird install directory and I
> always get the same thing. I've also tried running the service as

the

> same user for which it works as an application and get the same

error.

>
> Does anyone have any ideas how to debug this with so little
> information? Or... how do I get more information?
>
> -- Les Walker