At 11:56 PM 9/04/2008, you wrote:

>Hi Folks:
>
> Developing app on Win XP Media, VS 2008.
>
> Firebird-2.0.1.12855, IBPP 2.5.3.1.
>
> I've been compiling with VC6 until about a week ago.
>
> Inno has been used to package up my app and Firebird,
>and it's been running fine on my partners XP laptop.
>
> Each time my app starts it looks in the registry to
>see if Firebird has been installed. If it hasn't,
>CreateProcess() is called and Firebird is installed in
>its default directory. After it's been installed,
>gsec is called, and fed a command line to modify SYSDBA's
>password to one the user specified.
>
> This has been running great, until a couple of days
>ago when I sent out code built with the new IDE, VS 2008.
>
> It still runs fine on my PC, but when I email the
>Inno package to my partner, gsec fails.
>
> Now, Inno installs the app, and the app runs Firebird's
>Firebird-2.0.1.12855-1-Win32.exe. This is done without
>any problems.
>
> Then the app tries to run gsec, and I get a timeout.
>This is the argument list to gsec.
>
>-user sysdba -pass masterkey -mo sysdba -pw <DBA Password>
>
> I've noticed that sometimes my partner's PC complains
>about running a program from another computer, and asks
>for the user to unblock or cancel the program. If this
>is happening, what can I do about it?
>
> Anyway, I was wondering if anybody else has run across
>this problem.

The installer might be running in a remote desktop shell. In that case, you'd need to supply the -database switch to the gsec command, e.g. -database myserver:\path\to\security2.fdb

./heLen