| Subject | Re: [firebird-support] Can't attach to password database and other problems with existing FB install |
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| Author | André Knappstein |
| Post date | 2012-10-22T13:36:23Z |
Once I saw this or similar, after a local administrator was playing
too much with the built-in privileges for a folder. A folder has been
created with *only* Administrator and explicit user groups. Built-in
groups and built-in users had been deleted or restricted out of
paranoia.
The users "system", "local service" and "network service" also had
been deleted. Then the privileges of that folder have been copied to
all child folders.
The letter D:\ in your posting suggests it is on a separate partition.
Make sure that the typical built-in users do have the appropriate
privileges and that nobody was moving folders around without also
correcting the references.
André Knappstein
EDV und Controlling
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too much with the built-in privileges for a folder. A folder has been
created with *only* Administrator and explicit user groups. Built-in
groups and built-in users had been deleted or restricted out of
paranoia.
The users "system", "local service" and "network service" also had
been deleted. Then the privileges of that folder have been copied to
all child folders.
The letter D:\ in your posting suggests it is on a separate partition.
Make sure that the typical built-in users do have the appropriate
privileges and that nobody was moving folders around without also
correcting the references.
> Dear All,mit freundlichen Grüßen,
> My program has been working without problems on the computer of one
> of my users. He is running Windows XP with FB 2.1.1.
> Something has happened, and now we're getting the following error message:
> "-902: can't attach to password database".
> The firebird service is running and seemingly everything is intact in the FB install directory.
> So I thought about removing and reinstalling Firebird.
> When I ran the uninstaller I got the following error message from
> the Innosetup uinstaller: (message translated from my language)
> Setup doesn't have rights to access (or can't access)
> D:\Firebird_2_1\uninst001.dat. Error code: 5
> Uninst001.dat is there and I can freely rename or work with the
> Firebird folder, so it doesn't seem to me that something else would be locking the files or folder.
> Any ideas on what may be going on?
> Thanks!
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André Knappstein
EDV und Controlling
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beta Eigenheim- und Grundstücksverwertungsgesellschaft mbH
Hafenweg 4
59192 Bergkamen-Rünthe
Telefon: +49 2389 9240 140
Telefax: +49 2389 9240 150
e-mail: knappstein@...
Amtsgericht Hamm Nr. B 420
Geschäftsführer: Achim Krähling, Dirk Salewski und Matthias Steinhaus
USt-IDNr.: DE 125215402