Luc,
That worked. Thank you very much.
The gsec worked to change the SYSDBA password, and I was able to get
IBManager to work by re-registering the database and specifying the
database and security db in the following format:

127.0.0.1:C:\FULLPATH\DBNAME.FDB

Can someone explain for me why it is necessary to do this on Windows
2003, whereas on my XP system it isn't necessary (I can just specify
the path starting with C:\...)?

Thank you.

>
> Have you tried connecting with localhost or the real pcname resp.

the

> IP-adress, like:
>
> gsec -user SYSDBA -pa masterkey
> -database localhost:YOUR_FB_PATH\security.fdb
> -modify SYSDBA -pw newpwd
>
>
> Luc.