Hi Pat,

> Hello everybody,
>
> i have difficulties in getting my firebird server running. After checking installation 2 times and reading through knowledge bases i can't find a solution.
>
> i am using a win2003 server on which firebird was installed. service are running. but when trying to run "gsec" for changing password i get the following error again and again: "unavailable database unable to open database"

Usually a "remote" connection to the security.fdb database helps here.

Try (for example):

gsec -database localhost:<path_to_security_fdb> ...



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