I have to echo this - we have had problems with other applications that
use Firebird and install in a rather unfriendly manner... it's not cool!

We ship out network version with a utility that allows people to set the
SYSDBA password if they need to, create a user that our software uses
etc... in our client they then just put the hostname and password. We
do allow users to change ports, alias or username - if they are advanced
FB users and have the need to use multiple FB versions etc.

Regards,

Peter Lee

On 14/01/2011 5:11 PM, Svein Erling Tysvær wrote:
> It is risky to trust users to follow instructions, but it is even more stupid to make assumptions about their existing systems. Many will enjoy a system that is a no-brainer to install, but some might have knowledgeable IT staff and actually use Firebird with other systems. Silently uninstalling/reinstalling Firebird, may have serious side effects (like making other systems fail because they are developed for other Firebird versions, deleting users and resetting the sysdba password).
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> That previous thread caused me to read the documentation in the Doc sub-folder, as well as that section of Helen's book. It looks as if I can use command-line arguments to cause the install to be Classic without needing to trust the user to follow instructions (we all know how risky that can be). Unfortunately, I'm still a little in the dark about how the various command-line arguments affect the user interface. It may be that I'll need to experiment with them to actually see what my users will see. At the moment I can't get beyond the message that there is a server already running, etc. I should be able to fix that by stopping the server, or uninstalling it before reinstalling (not sure which just yet).
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