Thanks for the reply Paul.

I program using W2K with MSAccess, MS SQL, MySQL, PostgreSQL databases at my disposal. Access and MS SQL are on my workstation. Part of my confusion resulted from the fact that Microsoft SQL also has an ISQL located at: ..\Program Files\Misrosoft SQL Server\80\Binn\Resources\1033 as well and I though for a while I had two versions of Firebird iSql. I tried several things before I finally found the problem.

FYI If you have users telling you that iSQL opens with only a prompt for the Password, ask if they have MS SQL Server running on their machine.

TA

dkoder2

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> From: Paul Vinkenoog <paul@...>
> Date: 2007/01/15 Mon PM 07:22:16 EST
> To: firebird-support@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [firebird-support] Firebird Server Access
>
> dkoder2 wrote:
>
> > I have yet to access Firebird on the Linux box using iSQL. It seems
> > no matter what combination of parameters I use it returns an error.
> > By combination of parameters I mean -U/user, -P/password and
> > upper/lower case database name etc.
>
> In addition to Helen's reply: make sure that the executable you run is
> /opt/firebird/bin/isql
>
> If your current dir is /opt/firebird/bin, type "./isql", not "isql".
> Many Linux distros have an unrelated isql tool in the search path!
>
>
> Greetings,
> Paul Vinkenoog
>
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