have you made an entry in your hosts file?
3051 fb_db
and change the service name in the conf file to fb_db

Alan

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> Subject: RE: [firebird-support] Question for Alan McDonald
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> OK - this is the error I get :
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> Unable to complete network request to host "localhost".
> Failed to locate host machine.
> Undefined service 3051/tcp
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