Hi,

What you see in firebird.log and eventlog when the problem happens?
Every network hardware working perfectly? E.g. NIC in the server or
a switch without an UPS(or switch with a not working UPS).
I don't know the source of your problem. I just have tips.

Gabor

Gustavo írta:

> Nobody answers this message. Perhaps it didn´t arrive to the group. So I
> resend it.
>
> Does anyone have any idea of which may be the reason of the problem I tell
> you?
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Gustavo" <gusm@...>
> To: <firebird-support@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, April 01, 2009 4:44 PM
> Subject: [firebird-support] Problems with the service of FireBird Server
>
>
> Hello:
>
> I have an application in Delphi which uses FireBird 2.0.1 Superserver.
>
> It is installed in an enterprise which has 8 users in a local network and 5
> users in another building. These 5 users, use the application accesing via
> Terminal Server to the PC where the application is installed since 2 years
> ago.
>
> The application and the FDB files are in a PC which, till 2 months ago had
> Windows 2003 Server. Then they changed this to Windows XP (¡don´t ask why
> please!). This worked fine during 2 months, but this week it started a
> problem: 5, 6 or 7 times a day, every user (in the local network or by
> terminal server) looses contact with the database at the same time. When
> this happens, I check the Service Control Manager and I see that the service
> "Firebird Server - DefaultInstance" is started. Then, I stopped it (I get an
> error 1067 but it stops), I started it again, and then every user can
> connect again to the database... till the next time it fails.
>
> Does anyone knows what may be happening?
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Gustavo
>
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