2008/1/16, Milan Babuskov <milanb@...>:

> Daniel Albuschat wrote:
> > I connected to the server
>
> How? Terminal services? VNC? In your other message you say that server
> is Ubuntu Linux, right?

No, via Firebird, of course :-)
I can connect to the server by any other means, otherwise I wouldn't
have posted this issue to the firebird-list.
And yes, the server is Ubuntu Linux.

> > and tried to connect to the database. I got
> > the error-message "The system could not find the environment option
> > that was entered"
>
> That is a Windows error message, as can be seen here:
>
> http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms681382(VS.85).aspx
>
> Reading some other problems on MS website, like this one:
>
> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/820524
>
> it seems that this error message shows when some env. variable is
> missing (possibly by running a program within terminal services or
> similar environment).
>
> Does your application or some of the libraries it uses need env. variables?

No, the same error message is generated by any program that connects from
a windows machine to the firebird server.

Regards,

Daniel Albuschat

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