At 10:40 AM 23/05/2005 +0000, you wrote:

>Hi!
>
>What is the best way to shut down FB 1.5 SS from my program?
>
>I need this because I'm using SS as "embbeded server" (ie I do not
>install FB control panel applet, registry key etc, I only copy nessary
>files to the client PC and launc server via ShellExecute with -a
>parameter from my program). I can't use "real embbeded" as the
>reporting solution uses ODBC and thus I have more than one connection
>to the server...

Then why not use Classic? Then you never have to face the (horrible) task
of starting and stopping the server from your application - clients are not
meant to control servers!!. In Classic, there is one server instance for
each connection. Attaching to a database creates a server
instance; detaching destroys it.

./heLen