> I don't know your setup of the Firebird installation, but my earliest
> trouble started because the quick start guide is not clear enough for
> me that for classic server on localhost with local database dirve, you
> still need the host name before you can connect to the database file:
>
> SQL>connect "localhost:c:\firebird\examples\employee.fdb"

It is probably because quick start guide expects you use default
settings, and if you change something you know what you are doing.
Default installation is Superserver, not Classic.
If quick start guid would mention every possibility
it would not be quick guide any more.

Ivan