Erro ao conectar com firebird

Boa Tarde Pessoal,

estou tentando conectar minha aplicação a um banco firebird

Porem não estou conseguindo.

Esta dando o seguinte erro

org.firebirdsql.jdbc.FBSQLException: GDS Exception. 335544344. I/O error during "CreateFile (open)" operation for file "banco"
Error while trying to open file
null
org.firebirdsql.jdbc.FBSQLException: GDS Exception. 335544344. I/O error during "CreateFile (open)" operation for file "banco"
Error while trying to open file
null
28/12/2012 17:43:51 org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve invoke
GRAVE: Servlet.service() for servlet jsp threw exception
java.lang.NullPointerException
	at org.apache.jsp.painelcontrole_jsp._jspService(painelcontrole_jsp.java:99)
	at org.apache.jasper.runtime.HttpJspBase.service(HttpJspBase.java:98)
	at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:803)
	at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:331)
	at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:329)
	at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:265)
	at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:803)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:269)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:188)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:213)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:174)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:127)
	at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:117)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:108)
	at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:151)
	at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:874)
	at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11BaseProtocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.processConnection(Http11BaseProtocol.java:665)
	at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.PoolTcpEndpoint.processSocket(PoolTcpEndpoint.java:528)
	at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.LeaderFollowerWorkerThread.runIt(LeaderFollowerWorkerThread.java:81)
	at org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run(ThreadPool.java:689)
	at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)

Metodo de conexão

	private boolean conectar(){
		
		boolean situacao = false;
		try {
	        // Load the JDBC driver   
	        String driverName = "org.firebirdsql.jdbc.FBDriver";
	        Class.forName(driverName);   
	        
	        // Create a connection to the database   
	        
	        String url = null;
	        
        	url="jdbc:firebirdsql:localhost/3050:banco";  
	        	  	        
	        
	        String username = "sysdba";   
	        String password = "masterkey";   
	        
	        conexao = DriverManager.getConnection(url,username,password);   
	        situacao = true;
	    
	    } catch (ClassNotFoundException e) {       
	        System.out.println(e);       
	    }
		catch (SQLException e) {       
	        System.out.println(e);       
	    }  

        return situacao;
	}

Arquivo de Alies do Firebird

banco= D:\isael\Dados\banco\Dados.FDB

Já tentei conectar de varias maneiras, porem não estou conseguindo, alguem pode ajudar ?

Você ja tentou sem o alias?

url="jdbc:firebirdsql:localhost/3050:D:/isael/Dados/banco/Dados.FDB";  

Sim, porem ele diz que não conhece o banco.

Cara, realmente era o caminho, mudei a posição das pastas e deu certo.
Valeu