Dear win32 packagers:

I have Vista Business (of which my experience is quite new)

I'm installing firebird 2.03, I want to start it as an application.
I am loggod on as a user with admin privileges (user is in the
administrators group)

A) zip version

1. First I unzipped the zip version to a dir,
2. ran "instreg i".
3. ran "fbguard -a" or "fbserver -a"
4. tried connecting with my (java) app

"cannot attach to password database"
log showed: operating system directive CreateFileMapping failed

Tried changing firebird.conf
IpcName = Global\FIREBIRD

didn't help


B) installer

1. I installed it using the installer
2. The installer ran it after finishing and it was working!
3. A stopped the server, did something with the config files,
restarted the server - didn't work anymore, same error as with zip
version.

What I noticed is that i wasn't able to change/delete files in the
installation directory unless I started total commander with "Run
as..." and selected Administrator.

So I ran the server app with "Run as..." and selected administrator

That's how it started working again. Running the server with my
privileges just doesn't work.


Problem:
Wether or not this is documented somewhere, it will frustrate away
anyone who wants to install firebird to run as an application on Vista.

Firebird 1.5 worked this "one-click-install or unzip" way. I think
firebird2 should be able to work the same way.


Hope this helps,

John