Thanks Helen. This is not working for me either. I get a 4 line error message:
Invalid switch specified
error in switch specifications
unavailable database
unable to open database

I used localhost, 127.0.0.1, and 192.168.1.7 as IP address. Same result each time.

Any ideas?

warren

--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, Helen Borrie <helebor@...> wrote:
>
> At 03:53 PM 18/12/2009, you wrote:
> >I have firebird 1.5 on Vista and am having trouble using Gsec to establish new user - password combinations. At the command prompt when I enter:
> >
> >gsec -user sysdba -password masterkey
> >
> >I get the message "unavailable database".
> >
> >What is wrong here?
>
> You're trying to use the IPCServer transport that's implemented in Fb 1.5 on Vista. It doesn't work there.
>
> Use TCP/ip local loopback.
>
> 1. Put an alias in aliases.conf for the path to your security.fdb, e.g.
> sec = C:\Program Files\Firebird\Firebird_1_5\security.fdb
>
> 2. Call gsec as follows:
>
> gsec -se localhost:service_mgr -database sec -user SYSDBA -password masterkey
>
> localhost isn't available on some Vista workstations. If it's not, substitute the hostname or internal IP address of the computer.
>
> ./heLen
>