At 03:12 PM 31/01/2007, you wrote:

>Hi Helen,
>
>Thanks for that - worked a charm. localhost also worked, which I'll
>probably put into our script.
>
>It seems a little strange - you think that it's running as a remote
>desktop connection? I'm just in a cmd.exe window directly on the
>machine (via vmware!).

No, it's not strange. The command window in Windows is not DOS. It
is a shell that runs in the user's application space - in the case of
a vmware client, it would be a shell in the guest client's space.

>I've also just figured out another problem - each time I tried to get
>into the Control Panel, Windows Explorer would crash... as it turns
>out, this is caused by the Firebird control panel applet.
>
>I checked this out a number of times just to be sure - it happens
>regardless of which 'mode' the control panel is in.
>
>Just out of interest - I tried Firebird 2.0 and that works fine -
>control panel applet no worries.
>
>I should report this somewhere?

It is a known issue that has already been reported in the tracker,
see http://tracker.firebirdsql.org/browse/CORE-1109 and is (so far)
an unresolved issue.

./heLen