At 09:06 AM 13/07/2005 +1000, Steven Hunter wrote:

>Have you tried the dos format short filenames for "program files" (ie
>progra~1)?
>Perhaps you need double " marks for the long filename support?
>
>So try:
>
>gsec -user SYSDBA -database "C:\Progra~1\Firebird\Firebird_1_5\security.fdb"
>-password masterkey
>
>Although your command with the space works fine here on my pc (fb 1.5 SS, xp
>pro sp2, no firewall enabled)
>
>As does it without the space.
>
>Although I do have the firebird bin dir in path
>(c:\progra~1\firebird\firebird_1_5\bin)

Pat, did you know that Windows has TWO command shells? The one that you
start using "command.exe" is the old one from NT4/Win98. It doesn't
recognise long filenames or spaces. This is the one you get if you do
Start>Run>command. It appears to be the cause of your troubles.

The one you need is "cmd.exe". Start>Run>cmd. No more path format problems.

./heLen