--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, "PRoyston" <pete@...> wrote:

>
> I have been using Firebird (1.5) with a delphi 7 application for
> years. I am using Interbase Express (IBX 6.5).
> I recently moved to a VISTA machine. I have never installed Firebird
> on this machine, so I went ahead and installed Firebird 2.0. I took a
> backup file from my old machine and installed it with GBAK on my vista
> machine.
> I use Database Workbench (2.8.5) and it can access the database fine,
> everything looks good there.
> When I access the database from my program, it errors on connect:
>
> unsupported on-disk structure for file C:\WhenDB\Whendb.fdb;
> found 32779.10, support 0.0
>
> The only GDS32.dll (in windows\system32) is dated 3/2/2007 2:05pm.
> When I look at Database Properties in DB Workbench, it says
> Version: WI-V6.3.1.12855 Firebird 2.0
> I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling Firebird a few times
> (using Run as Administrator).
> Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks.
>

For Vista, you will need to either use the TCP/IP loopback (put
localhost: in front of the database path), or set the IPCName in
Firebird.conf.

Adam