Mark,

>> You need to restart the server to have the aliases take effect.

M> Do you need to reboot the machine, or just shutdown and restart firebird? If so,
M> what is the proecdure for restarting firebird under XP?

AFAIK changes in alieases.conf are "seen" without the need to restart
the server, at least on classic. I haven't tested on superserver,
though.

Ciao
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