> I don't have a Windows InterBase server running any more, but, unless
>memory fails, I used to use strings of the form:
>
> "machinename:c:\mypath\mydb.gdb"

Yeah, you're right. So I was barking up the wrong tree and just had an
extra slash where it shouldn't have been. I gues I was just confusing
Interbase connect strings with Interclient jdbc URL's and http URL's.

Thanks for clearing that up.

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Adrian