At 04:12 PM 11/03/2005 +0000, you wrote:

>A client of ours had a really old version of firebird installed (think
>it was a yaffil variant). I wanted to move them over to 1.5.2, but there
>was no uninstall info associated with the old version. So, I moved all
>the files and deleted all entries to do with it from the registry.
>Maybe hacking at the registry wasn't the best of plans, but it's done now :(
>
>Anyway, I installed 1.5.2 and it seemed fine with one exception: gsec
>requires the security database to be specified with the host when it's
>run (-database localhost:c:\firebird\security.fdb).
>
>The problem is that they randomly are getting problems connecting to
>firebird. The app which I write works fine for a while, then throws
>errors about not being able to connect to the database.

OK, you established that you have the right client. Next, just make
double-sure that there isn't a stray gds32.dll in the application path or
somewhere else in the user's path, just to put that one to bed.

>I'm certain that it's not a problem with the app as they've been running
>it for quite some time with no problems.

I'm curious to know what this "randomly" thing means. Does it mean some
users can connect, while some can't? Or the same user can connect
sometimes and not others? Remote users can connect, but local users
can't? Or the first user can't connect?

What's the exact message and at what point does it occur?

What do you see in the Firebird.log?

Which model of the server is installed? Classic (fb_inet_server.exe) or
Superserver (fbserver.exe)? On what platform? If XP, what's the name of
the database?

./hb