I am a new and trying-to-be user of Firebird. (and an old
experienced Sql server DBA/user).

I downloaded the zip file onto a nice clear machine running windows
server 2003. I printed out the tons of release notes, read all the
readmes, and ran the install_super (because I didn't realize the
fancy windows installer was in a separate zip). then I migrated to
the directory where the security fdb was, ran isql.exe, added my
user, etc. opened a private db, and so on. Everything worked fine.

Next day, the sys admin brought down the machine, unplugged it, and
moved it into the official, air-conditioned server room. The
Firebird service would no longer start. I uninstalled, reran the
install -- appeared to work fine, but any connect gets error -904
unavailable database.

I read all the messages on the support line, and tried what the other
guy did: I have now installed with the fancy installer, and then
uninstalled, installed from the zip again, uninstalled, deleted and
removed everything, tried again -- each time the service comes up,
the registry is fine, etc, but: unavailable database.

Clearly it is not corruption, because I wiped out and redownloaded
the security fdb. Would something in a network card cause this?

I am stumped.

Ann Cecil
InterScope Technologies