Maybe this is a feature of IB (6.0? that got fixed along the way.
The test suite for the product I work on is in a complicated
heirarchy of folders. The folder depth however had gotten out of
hand and we had GDB's stuffed in nooks and crannies like

e:\projects\product\subsytem\unittest\inputdata\blobstore.gdb

so to cut down on some of the clutter we did a subst with :

subst z: e:\projects\product\subsystem\inputdata\ so that the
connection string was a little more friendly z:\blobstore.gdb

However I get this from firebird when I connect:

ISC ERROR CODE:335544721

ISC ERROR MESSAGE:
Unable to complete network request to host "Z".
Failed to locate host machine.
The specified name was not found in the hosts file or Domain Name
Services.

Is there a work around to this problem? I understand the
<host>:<path> is the means of connecting via tcp/ip, but I thought
if this was the case, the e:\projects thing would also trip up.

oh, I also tried these hacks to no avail:

127.0.0.1:z:\blobstore.gdb and localhost:z:\blobstore.gdb in the
connection string to no avail

anyone had this problem ?

--Mike