Do you have spaces in Windows file names?

>laErr[1] = 1526
>laErr[2] = Connectivity error: I/O error for file "C17_33761"
>Error while trying to open file
>The system cannot find the file specified.
>laErr[3] = as above
>laErr[4] = 08004
>laErr[5] = 0
>laErr[6] = 1
>laErr[7] = null
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>C17_33761 is the alias as setup in the aliases.conf for FireBird on the server machine.
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>Further research reveals that FireBird can refuse a connection if it has the belief that it will corrupt the database. The long Windows filepathnames may have played a part in this for me. Still researching but I think what was happening was that ODBC was somehow hiding the long pathnames complexity from FireBird, connection strings was not and thus the lock down.