Ok,

this seemed to be a DCOM-issue. Starting the service with the -i
switch thus disabling the local connection did the trick.

Thanks anyway for this great piece of software!!

M.

>
> Come on, no ideas ?
>
> I managed to install into 2 different directories, put different
> parameters in the firebird.conf file, namely
>
> RootDirectory
> RemoteServiceName
> RemoteServicePort
>
> and wrote a little program that registers the fbserver.exe as a
> service in the ServiceManager, under a name of my choice (not
> defaultinstance)
>
> But i can't start them at the same time. As soon as one instance is
> acitve, the second gets deactivated immediately after it was started.
>
> Any help greatly appreciated.
>
> M.
>
> PS: Working with WinXP and FB 1.5.2 at the moment.
>
>
> --- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, "captain_wondermike"
> <Michael.Lutz@n...> wrote:
> >
> > Dear list,
> >
> > I hope this question has not been asked toooo often, but I couldn't
> > find a solution in the archives:
> >
> > I need to install two instances of Firebird 1.5.2 on a Win2k3
> machine.
> > Both should be installed as a service, but with different names, so
> > one could distinguish them in the services manager. And both in
> > different folders, with different config-files and different ports
> of
> > course.
> >
> > Each service in the end is going to be assigned to one virtual
> machine
> > in the Win2k3 (it's an enterprise version), but virtual machines in
> > Win2k3 are not comparible to VMWare or so, they are just "a name and
> > an IP-adress", to over-simplify it.
> >
> > I think it is possible, but unfortunately the instsvc.exe does not
> > have a switch like "-n Instancename".
> >
> > Please help.
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> > M.