--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, "Steven Hunter"
<steven.hunter@b...> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Sounds like you don't have FB running as a service.
> Check how you have it running in the control pannel applet on the

server.

>
> Cheers
> Steven
>

Hi Steve,

Thanks for taking the time to comment.
It's FB 1.5.1 running on a Win 2003 server as a service, not an
application. Guardian was 'on' but have now dissabled.

Cheers,
Tony

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tony Masefield [mailto:polsolsa@y...]
> Sent: Friday, 29 July 2005 1:54 PM
> To: firebird-support@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [firebird-support] Re: Firebird 1.5.2 client on Win 2000
>
> Hi All,
>
> An update to the original post on this subject:
>
> When I initially copied the FDB file to the server from my laptop

I had had

> to log on as the server administrator. After doing this the

application on

> my laptop ran fine, even though the connection to the server was
> disconnected/reconnected a few times.
> When trying the app on the Win 2000 client it wouldn't work.
> However, logging on to the server yesterday from the Win 200

machine as

> administrator, and then trying the app now works.
> Obviously I'm missing something here in terms of the necessity to

log onto

> the server in the first instance (the FDB is, BTW, in a shared

folder on the

> server).
> Why logging on to the server just once should cause the app to run

from that

> point forward I don't understand. I had assumed (obviously
> wrongly) that setting the port at 3050 would bypass the server log-

on

> requirements.
> Actually, at the moment, the FDB is resident on the application

server which

> also runs a commercial Oracle based program (which in turn is

connected to a

> DB server). The Oracle program is still

under "development/modification"

> (for the last 10 months) so I am trying to avoid

any 'interference' with

> this aspect.
> The one thing I haven't checked yet is what strain of Windows is

running on

> the application server at this time.
>
>
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