--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, "Adrian Wreyford"
<wreymed@a...> wrote:

> GOT IT!!!
>
> PORT 3050 ADDED to windows firewall!
>
> Now the newserver:c:\prax\prax.fdb works on all PC's all users!
>
> Thanks to everybody who helped.
> I learned a vast amount:
>
> 1). Don't share drives, folders to get things to work! They don't

need to be

> shared! "The owner of the server process in Windows is (by default) the
> LocalSystem user, which has huge privileges. In short, unless you

installed

> Fb 1.5 to be owned by a different user than LocalSystem, permissions

won't

> be the problem. FB-GURU"
> 2). Make sure ALL the PC's are running the same version of Firebird!
> 3). Make sure you have set up your hosts file with the correct IP

address

> pointing to the server.
> 4). Don't use *.gdb with firebird .. rename *.fdb: " This has been
> documented to death, across two releases and about a gazillion times

across

> the support lists. FB-GURU"
> 5). Open a port in the firewall on your server for the STANDARD firebird
> port: 3050, or if you are using something else, then open that port.
> 6). Meticulously check for typo's, in pathnames, config files, hosts

files.

> 7). When you don't succeed try, try again, ask, ask again ..you will
> succeed!
> 8). When making changes to the firbird.conf, stop - restart the

server for

> these to take effect.
>
> Adrian

A start only.
Now start using datbase aliases and life will be much easier

Mick