At 11:54 AM 6/03/2006, you wrote:

>Hi
>
>I have just installed firebird 1.5 superserver at a clients with their
>network guy. Server installed fine and client installed fine and
>everything was fine when logged on as administrator.
>
>But when logged on as a user we found that the client could not access
>the FB database until we shared the firebird folder containting
>security.fdb ie
>
>C:\Program Files\Firebird\Firebird_1_5
>
>Is this a normal setup requirement or did we miss a step?

No, you should not share *any* Firebird folders.

I suspect that your problem is due to the engine not being able to
find its root directory. Try running the program instclient.exe from
the bin directory, at the command line.

>I did not think this was necessary as only the FB server was accessing
>this folder?

Correct. But you need to explain what you mean by "could not
access". All defined users have read access to security.fdb. To get
access to a *user database*, the user must be granted the appropriate
privileges to the objects in the database by SYSDBA or the object owner.

If this concept doesn't mean anything to you, you'd better post back here PDQ.

./heLen