At 06:19 PM 25/03/2005 -0500, you wrote:

>Hello all,
>
> I've just realized that when logged on to my Windows box as
>Administrator (which I never do) I can't use the services API remotely
>(which I never do) against servers on my Linux box. The access is logged
>on Linux as an unsuccessful attempt to log in by ADMINISTRATOR and the
>windows client gets an I/O error. According to the person who pushed me
>to try those unnatural acts, InterBase 6.0 has the same behavior.
>
> Any ideas why?

No idea. I don't get this particular error (logged in to Win as ADMINISTRATOR), but this:

C:\Program Files\Firebird\Firebird_1_5\bin>gbak -b -se coolduck:service_mgr /opt
/firebird/examples/employee.fdb /opt/firebird/examples/test1.fbk -user sysdba -p
ass masterkey
gbak: ERROR: cannot open backup file /opt/firebird/examples/test1.fbk
gbak: Exiting before completion due to errors

C:\Program Files\Firebird\Firebird_1_5\bin>gbak -b -se coolduck:service_mgr /opt
/firebird/examples/employee.fdb /home/sysdba/test1.fbk -user sysdba -pass master
key
gbak: ERROR: cannot open backup file /home/sysdba/test1.fbk
gbak: Exiting before completion due to errors

C:\Program Files\Firebird\Firebird_1_5\bin>gbak -b -se coolduck:service_mgr /opt
/firebird/examples/employee.fdb l:\data\fbk\test1.fbk -user sysdba -pass masterk
ey

C:\Program Files\Firebird\Firebird_1_5\bin>

As you see, the last attempt doesn't except at all - but it doesn't write anything to the local disk, either.

./h