Subject Re: [IBO] Re: Connecting from a Windows service
Author Daniel Albuschat
2006/10/24, gerrwes <gerrwes@...>:
> I agree that the service should have a dependency on the Firebird
> service, but this only ensures that your service starts after
> Firebird after a reboot. I had a problem connecting to Firebird while
> Firebird was running!
>
> The 'Allow service to interact with desktop' setting corrected the
> error. Dunno why?!

As stated previously by Thomas, did you use a local-loopback TCP/IP connection
rather than a local connection?
i.e. write
localhost:/C:\Path\To\DB.fdb
instead of
C:\Path\To\DB.fdb

"Allow service to interact with desktop" is, imho, a non-desirable workaround.

Regards,
Daniel
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