On Fri, 04 May 2012 03:04:16 -0000, daniel.ach.kit@... wrote:

> Hi all!
>
> As far as I understand there is a firebird.log-file on client and on
> server side.
>
> I have firebird 1.5.6 installed on Windows 7 and a Windows 2008 Server

and

> I'm looking for the server side Firebird.log-file but cannot find it on
> both machines. Where should it be located? In the same folder as

Firebird

> is installed? Is it possible that it's not created because Firebird

misses

> some rights to write to this folder?
>
> When I try to extract the log with IBExpert I get the message "Service

API

> is unavailable or Server is unavailable"
>
> Thanks for your help
> Daniel

Firebird 1.5 is not really compatible with Windows 7 / Windows 2008
Server, workaround is to install Firebird into a folder which is not under
UAC security (ie not in Program Files). Most likely it is trying to write
to the Program Files folder without sufficient rights. You might want to
check the 'Virtual Store'-folder in the user profile of the user that is
running the Firebird service

Mark