--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, Guido Klapperich
<guido.klapperich@...> wrote:

>
> > I don't have a solution but I do have a suggestion: try to make a
> > local connection as Administrator, and/or as the user that owns the
> > Firebird process (if it isn't Localsystem). That will at least give
> > you some additional information:
> >
> > - If Admin can't connect either, the local protocol isn't functioning.
>
> I can connect as Admin, so the local protocol is functioning.
>
> > - If he (and/or the Fb process owner) can connect, it must have
> > something to do with access rights (but access to what?)
>
> That's exactly the question.
> The reason why I asked, is that with Windows Vista and the UAP every
> process runs as normal user. So I wanted to test the scenario on XP as
> normal user. But so far I have no solution, how a normal user can
> connect to a firebird database with the local protocol.
>
> Regards
>
> Guido
>

Hi Guido,

I do not have too much experience with local protocol because pretty
much all my installations are either TCP SS/CS or embedded, bypassing
your issue. I wonder though whether it is trying to write to some log
file. By default, 'users' have no write access inside $PROGRAMFILES.
Maybe you could try temporarily granting them access to the Firebird
sub folder to see if it is something there.

Adam