---In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, <jackmason@...> wrote : > > The databases reside on a Linux Mint server, but we back them up to a > Windows 7 system. Both are running the same release of Firebird.
Are you sure you run Firebird 2.5 on Win7 (not 2.1) ? Please, run following in command prompt (at firebird\bin folder) and show us results: isql -user sysdba -pass masterkey create database 'localhost:c:\temp\a.fdb'; show version; drop database; exit; Regards, Vlad