> We're in the process of changing an application that accesses a Firebird database file from a regular application to a windows
> service. For legacy reasons this uses the Firebird embedded DLL (fbclient) for version 1.5.6. The code that attempts to connect to
> this file always succeeds as a user-type application but fails when run as a service. I don't think it should be a problem with
> file access permissions because this same service is able to read and write other kinds of files. Are there any special
> permissions or configuration issues I might be missing?

Include computer name in your db connect string.

Ivan