Interbase/Firebird remote db (odbc)

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Hi!
I'm testing Interbase 6.0 / Firebird 1.0 with an XTG odbc driver. There's one thing I don't understand - when I create a DSN the driver asks for 'Interbase database path'.
In PostgreSQL (or any other normal RDBMS!) you have to give the host:port information, which is quite natural. Now, while the IB solution works just fine on a single machine, I have no idea how to make it work on separate machines (server / client). An obvious solution is to give the client access to the server's filesystem, but that's not what remote databases are all about, rigth? So, my question is: is there a way to make this work in the host:port style without using the IB native API?

Thanks.
 
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