At 07:21 AM 9/06/2009, you wrote:

>hello one and all,
>
>i have installed fb 1.5.4 on a windows vista sp1 computer. it installs fine, but i can not seem to access any damn file. like
>
>under firebird directory:
>
>bin\gsec -database security.fdb -user sysdba -password masterkey
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>returns
>unavailable database
>unable to open database
>
>also
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>bin\isql examples\employee.fdb -u sysdba -p masterkey
>
>returns
>Statement failed, SQLCODE = -904, unavailable database.
>
>i shutoff that damn windows "User Account Countrol" and the logged in user has Admin rights. i have been using firebird for years and never had such a basic problem as this. i am out of ideas. oh yeah, the services are running fine, i believe.

1. If you installed Classic then the "direct local" connection protocol won't work at all under v.1.5.x. Localhost almost certainly won't be available (for local loopback) so you'll need to use a TCP/IP connection string with the actual hostname of the server.

2. If you're running Superserver then, to use direct local protocol a la Firebird 1.5 on Vista, you'll need to change the value for IpcName in firebird.conf

from the default

#IpcName = FirebirdIPI

to

IpcName = global\FirebirdIPI

Note, it's case-sensitive and those are upper-case "i", not lower-case "L"; and you'll need to stop and restart Firebird to load a firebird.conf change.

(Plus those other things that Sean listed. v.1.5.4 is 18 months obsolete!)

./heLen