At 03:27 PM 22/02/2005 -0600, you wrote:

>I have a customer that has a server with WINNT, where I installed firebird
>1.5. On one of the workstations (windows 2000) I have gbak.exe which I try
>to call like such....
>
>Gbak -b <server:><pathto.gdb> <server:><pathto.gbk>
>
>But I keep getting an error message 'Can't format message'.
>
>
>I copied firebird.msg and fbclient.dll to the same directory that the
>gbak.exe is in on the workstation, but still get the message. I can't even
>do gbak -?

The reason the client can't format the error message for your illegal
request is that it needs to find firebird.msg in a directory immediately
above the directory where the executable is. If you are needing to run
server tools remotely, you should construct a tree that enables this, e.g.
for Windows

c:\firebird_tools\firebird.msg
c:\firebird_tools\bin\gbak.exe

To do a remote backup, you have to use the service manager syntax:

Gbak -b -se <server:service_mgr> <pathto.gdb> <pathto.gbk> -user <SYSDBA or
<OwnerName>> -password <password>

./heLen