> A> localhost:c:\myfb.fdb
>
> how do you manage network paths, if you do?

You can't so I don't.

If you were talking unc paths, you could resolve the database
hostname, but there would be no way to identify the path of the file
as seen by the database server from the client.

On a side note, hopefully no-one is silly enough to leave their
database files exposed over a network share?

Adam