At 05:53 PM 16/02/2006, you wrote:

>I am new to Firebird and have the following questions (I Installed
>FB 1.5.3
>Superserver):
>
>1. When trying to run gbak -c -v -z gw.gbk new.fdb I get a message
>saying
>that fbclient.dll could not be found. I understood from the
>installation that I cannot install both server side and client side
>so waht is
>the solution?

A-hum, not true. The installer should have put fbclient.dll into
your $fbroot\bin directory, where gbak will find it. Did you delete it?

>2. Will I be able to access the new fdb file from my Interbase
>client machines (IB 6.0.2)?

Access - possibly. Is it the right thing to do? Definitely
not. Match the version numbers of clients and server for a happy
life; otherwise you are going to live in this support list with
various problems.

>3. Why does hyperthreading slow down the connection time and does it
>only affect connection time?

Possibly, possibly not. Hyperthreading effects seem to vary from one
hardware setup to another, ranging from "no effect" to "total derangement".

>4. Is there a solution for this other than disabling hyperthreading?

It depends on whether a problem exists. For slow connection, don't
overlook the (much more common) possibilities: first, if you're on
XP or its ilk and your tests so far have been on a database with a
file suffix of .gdb, then the problem will probably disappear once
you are attaching to files with a different suffix; and second (the
can of worms) a network configuration problem. Grab the Quick Start
Guide from the Fb website for guidance on this and most other newbie issues.

./heLen