Success story : After NT4 death , firebird db started on another server

After the untimely demise of the NT server, I had to move the databases and the firebird server to a different computer. I had tried to do this before in December but was unable to connect from other computers on the network.

This time around, I noticed that I was getting a strange error message about temporary files; it turns out that the temporary file directory had been set to a directory which doesn’t exist. But more importantly, I still couldn’t get any computer to connect to the databases.

Read more on the blog (and the solution)