Chau Chee Yang wrote:

>> Under Vista you have to when running as a service, because otherwise the IPCname is placed in the user-local namespace and will be unavailable to processes running under a different user.
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> I never success using local protocol with Firebird 1.5 running as service on vista. Dimitry Sibiryakov has replied that it is impossible. Or you have ways to make it works?

Unfortunately no, I tried some things but they didn't work.

Only option is to force firebird to use TCP/IP instead of IPC by
prepending localhost: to the databasename.

Mark
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