> I have two FB servers installed as Windows services (my instance
> registered as a service with a different service name), have
> configured firebird.conf for my instance with a different TCP port,
> a different RemotePipeName, and CreateInternalWindow = 0. This works
> great and if I remove the registry key or modify it after starting
> the normal instance and before starting my instance, and I can run
> both FB instances simultaneously and connect to both by using a
> different TCP port in the connection string.
>
> Regards,
> Jarrod Hollingworth

Thanks for the tips Jarrod (and Helen). I'm presently planning out an
upgrade to an embedded install of IB6 to FB1.5. Its complicated by the
fact that some clients use apps by other vendors that rely on embedded IB.

I'm wondering if installing the service and client with a custom
service name and port number would avoid collisions with both IB6 AND
other apps' installs of FB??

Does anyone have any experience of managing this type of deployment?

Thanks,
Andrew