At 06:33 AM 17/08/2006, you wrote:

>FlameRobin REFUSES to connect to the
> > "examples/employee.fdb" from the client.
>
>The connection string (in FlameRobin) is:
>host-name:/opt/firebird/examples/employee.fdb
>
>and as a second attempt:
>host-name:employee.fdb
>
>set up with the aliases.conf file.

Let's suppose for now that the gds exception which, if correct,
relates to a bad SQL request of some kind, is a red herring.

When you attempt the remote connection, are you supplying username
and password, as is required?

./heLen