At 10:21 PM 18/12/2006, you wrote:

>We just had another insistent, where they couldn't connect.
>
>This nothing was in the log file, eventhough the Firebird Server must
>have been restarting. When we looked at the FB service running it only
>used som 58 Mb of RAM. So it must have been restarted.
>
>But only some few lucky ones could connect, and then it was very slow.
>
>We then shut down the FB - and restarted it again.
>
>It gave this in the error log:
>
>DBSRV04 (Client) Mon Dec 18 12:14:51 2006
> C:\Program Files (x86)\Firebird\Firebird_1_5\bin\fbserver.exe: normal
>shutdown
>
>
>DBSRV04 (Client) Mon Dec 18 12:14:51 2006
> Control services error 1061

The following log entries explain why Windows is throwing CSE 1061 -
it has already been told to shut down!

>DBSRV04 (Server) Mon Dec 18 12:14:51 2006
> Shutting down the Firebird service with 151 active connection(s) to 2
>database(s)
>
>DBSRV04 (Server) Mon Dec 18 12:14:51 2006
> The database E:\DB\KAUFMANN\OCCLICENS.FDB was being accessed when the
>server was shutdown
>
>DBSRV04 (Server) Mon Dec 18 12:14:51 2006
> The database E:\DB\KAUFMANN\OCCEASYPOS.FDB was being accessed when
>the server was shutdown
>
>DBSRV04 (Client) Mon Dec 18 12:14:56 2006
> Guardian starting: C:\Program Files
>(x86)\Firebird\Firebird_1_5\bin\fbserver.exe
>
>
>What does the Service Control Error 1061 mean ?

It's something like "Service cannot accept communication at this time".

But it might not be referring to the Firebird service. It could be
the Remote Terminal service.....just a reality check....somewhere you
mentioned MS Server 2003 and Remote Terminal clients....is it the
Small Business edition, by any chance? That edition has a 75-CAL limit.

./hb