Hi Bob,

> Can anyone tell me the best way to have Firebird 1.5 and Interbase
> coexist on the same server.
>
> I have tried configuring Firebird to use a port other than 3050 and
> this works sometimes. However, on many sites I get ISC error
> 335544472, invalid username and password, when trying to log into
> Firebird. As my database uses the default username and password, it
> seems that my application is somehow trying to access an Interbase
> database eventhough the connect string has SERVERNAME/PORT_NUMBER.

Make sure that you are using the Firebird client library, because only
that library understands the servername/port_number notation. The
InterBase client library doesn't support that.



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HTH,
Thomas Steinmaurer
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InterBase, Firebird, Advantage Database and MS SQL Server
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