Good day to everyone and all the best for 2008.

I have a connection problem or an aliases.conf problem. When connecting
to a database on the server using the isql tool with the following
parameters:
connect `SEBATA:F:\DATABASES\PORTMAN.FDB' everything works well and a
connection to the database is established. When trying to do the same
using the aliases.conf file (with a path on the client machine to
E:\Firebird_2_0) by issuing the command connect PORTMAN I repeatedly
get the following error: database unavailable (error number 904).

The alias in aliases.conf on the client machine is defined as following:
PORTMAN=SEBATA:F:\DATABASES\PORTMAN.FDB (the same as used in the
connection string using isql).

Firebird 2.0.3 is used as the SQL Server on a WindowsXP server box. Is
there something very simple that I am missing here?

Many thanks in advance.