Hi,

If you created an "Informix" user with a capital 'I', that could be a
problem. Suggest you uninstall, delete your informix user, re-install as
user Administrator and let the install program create an informix user
with the appropriate user rights.

Regards
Guy

christian_torstensson@msn.com wrote:
> Hi,
>
> New to this Usenet group
> And this is my first posting,,,
>
> I run IDS 7.31 TD6 on a NT4 box today and are planing to move to a
> Windows 2000 Server with SP4.
>
> When I try to install TD6 on Windows 2000 Server with SP4 (without any
> security or other patches installed - its a "clean" SP4 installation)
> the installation fails when the Server Instance Manager tries to build
> and start a new Instance.
>
> In the Event Viewer Security Log I get this message:
>
> "Only user informix can start Informix Dynamic Server"
>
> I am running the installation as user Informix (and Informix is Local
> Administrator on the box). I run the installation on the Console and
> are not using any kind of Termnial Server!
>
> Have anyone experienced this problem when installing TD6?
> Would be nice If anyone could help me out !?!?!?
>