I have recently installed firebird onto a new laptop in our office but
i just cannot seem to get it to work. Whenever i try to connect to a
database i get the error:

Unable to complete network request to 'localhost'.
Failed to establish a connection.
The system could not find the enviroment option the was entered.

Does anyone have any ideas what this means? Is there anything i can
check to give me a better idea of what the problem acutally is?

Phil