Thank you for your assistance,
I guess then the question is, what is the easy way to set up the user name and password on the server during deployment?
I do not want to tell my clients "Okay, go double-click on C:\Program Files\Firebird\bin\gbak.exe and then type BLAH BLAH BLAH"

:)

--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, Paul Vinkenoog <paul@...> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> > I set up a local database on my computer, and set the username and
> > password.
> > Now on another computer I installed Firebird, copied the gdb file,
> > and when I try to open the database file using the same username and
> > password, it tells me they are not defined.
>
> That is correct. Users and passwords are defined on (and verified by)
> the server, not the individual databases. The database only contains
> user names to register who has access to which objects within the
> database.
>
> So if you copy a db to another machine, you have to define a user with
> the same name on that machine too. The password need not be the same.
>
> BTW, the safe way to copy a database is to make a backup (using gbak
> or another Firebird tool) on the source machine and restore it on the
> target machine. If you make a simple file copy while the db is opened,
> damage may occur.
>
>
> Hope this helps,
> Paul Vinkenoog
>