--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, Helen Borrie <helebor@...> wrote:

>
> At 03:02 AM 10/04/2007, jasonw wrote:
> >I have discovered what caused the problem. I'm not sure where it needs
> >to be posted because I think it might be related to the .Net Firebird
> >provider, but I'm not sure. The issue is with permissions on the
> >terminal server specifically. Apparently, when connecting to the
> >embedded database, a file mapping is created in the global objects
> >cache. For a terminal server user to be able to do that, they need the
> >"Create Global Objects" permission. I discovered this in this article
> >from Microsoft:
> >
> >http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa366537.aspx
> >
> >According to
>
>http://207.46.196.114/WindowsServer/en/library/fa01a57a-a0ef-4cb9-af9a-f30182a25bf71033.mspx
> >the "Create Global Objects" permission is recommended for the
> >Administrators group and the Local System group.
> >
> >To help anyone who might run into this problem in the future, these
> >are the steps I followed to enable this permission:
> >
> >1. Open Administrative Tools -> Local Security Settings on the
> >terminal server.
> >2. Under "Create global objects" make add the users or groups that you
> >want to run the embedded server.
> >
> >I'm not sure if the embedded server needs to create global objects.
> >Would it be possible to use local objects under an embedded
> >application since only one process can have access to the database? Is
> >there something I can do when connecting to the Firebird database to
> >not use global memory objects?
>
> Did you chance to check over firebird.conf in the process of
> upgrading to Firebird 2?
>
> # ----------------------------
> # Local Connection Settings
> #
> # The name of the shared memory area used as a transport channel in
> local protocol.
> # Note that the local protocol in v2.0 is not compatible with any
> previous version
> # if Firebird or InterBase.
> #
> # IMPORTANT! If your host OS is Windows 2003 or Windows XP with the

terminal

> # services enabled and you need the local connection to work, you

should prefix

> # the below value with "Global\", i.e. it should be
> "Global\FIREBIRD". Please note
> # that the prefix is case-sensitive.
> #
> # Type: string
> #
> #IpcName = FIREBIRD
>
> ./hb
>

I feel dumb now. :) Thank you for pointing that out for me. I got so
stuck in my little box of there must be something wrong that I didn't
look to see if there was something in the configuration files.