Elmar, Thanks for the reply.
Yes the same alias works with an existing DB, and a DB can be created
with the path and works fine.
I am using IBO TIB_Connection.createdatabase which generates a CREATE
DATABASE statement but fails with the mentioned error.

Chuck

--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, Elmar Haneke <elmar@h...> wrote:
>
>
> > Is there a way to do it short of reading the aliases.conf file,
extracting the path and
> > creating a CREATE DATABASE statement with it?
>
> There is no need to do so, CREATE DATABASE should work with aliases.
>
> You should describe in detail what you are doing on creating the
> database.
>
> Does this work if you specify the path instead of the alias?
>
> Does the alias work after creating Database that way (perhaps you have
> a typo in aliases.conf)?
>
> Elmar