Hi Again Folks:

Developing on XP Home, Visual Studio 2008, C++,
Firebird-2.0.1.12855 - Superserver, and IBPP.

Thanks to clever design by Firebird's creators, my
app can perform a silent install of the SuperServer,
and a user that doesn't even know what a database is
has very nice Client - Server components up and running.

Well, most users can. One user, my partner in this
business, is having fits.

I'll spare you the long story. Firebird is installed
with:

"..\..\..\inno\release_package\Firebird-2.0.1.12855-1-Win32.exe"
/SILENT
ServerComponent,
ServerComponent\SuperServerComponent,
DevAdminComponent,ClientComponen

All of this is one one line.

On my machine this means Firebird server is running,
and ready for the app to run GSEC, add a user, and change
the password.

On my business partner's machine this installs Firebrid
but doesn't start the service, which causes the password
and account add to fail.

Is there a clever way to tell the server to be running
when Inno is finished, like it does on my machines?

Can I test if the guardian is running?

Is there any problem if I add a command to run
"fbguard.exe -a" to the install process for every install,
even if the guardian is running?

Thanks
Larry