diff --git a/symmetric/pom.xml b/symmetric/pom.xml
index 6f42015b78..5cfef09739 100644
--- a/symmetric/pom.xml
+++ b/symmetric/pom.xml
@@ -288,19 +288,19 @@
                 </systemProperties>
                 <additionalClasspathElements>
                     <additionalClasspathElement>
-                        ${user.home}\.symmetricds\lib\ojdbc6.jar
+                        ${user.home}/.symmetricds/lib/ojdbc6.jar
                         </additionalClasspathElement>
                     <additionalClasspathElement>
-                        ${user.home}\.symmetricds\lib\ojdbc5.jar
+                        ${user.home}/.symmetricds/lib/ojdbc5.jar
                         </additionalClasspathElement>
                     <additionalClasspathElement>
-                        ${user.home}\.symmetricds\lib\ojdbc14.jar
+                        ${user.home}/.symmetricds/lib/ojdbc14.jar
                         </additionalClasspathElement>
                     <additionalClasspathElement>
-                        ${user.home}\.symmetricds\lib\db2jcc.jar
+                        ${user.home}/.symmetricds/lib/db2jcc.jar
                         </additionalClasspathElement>
                     <additionalClasspathElement>
-                        ${user.home}\.symmetricds\lib\jaybird-full-2.1.6.jar
+                        ${user.home}/.symmetricds/lib/jaybird-full-2.1.6.jar
                         </additionalClasspathElement>
                 </additionalClasspathElements>
                 <includes>
diff --git a/symmetric/src/test/resources/symmetric-test.properties b/symmetric/src/test/resources/symmetric-test.properties
index 765122c449..ca346ff2de 100644
--- a/symmetric/src/test/resources/symmetric-test.properties
+++ b/symmetric/src/test/resources/symmetric-test.properties
@@ -35,11 +35,11 @@ h2.root.db.url=jdbc:h2:file:target/h2/root
 mssql.db.driver=net.sourceforge.jtds.jdbc.Driver
 mssql.db.user=sa
 mssql.db.password=symmetric
-mssql.client.db.url=jdbc:jtds:sqlserver://localhost/SymmetricClient
-mssql.root.db.url=jdbc:jtds:sqlserver://localhost/SymmetricRoot
+mssql.client.db.url=jdbc:jtds:sqlserver://hudson/SymmetricClient
+mssql.root.db.url=jdbc:jtds:sqlserver://hudson/SymmetricRoot
 
-firebird.client.db.url=jdbc:firebirdsql://localhost/c:/fbsqldata/SymmetricClient
-firebird.root.db.url=jdbc:firebirdsql://localhost/c:/fbsqldata/SymmetricRoot
+firebird.client.db.url=jdbc:firebirdsql:localhost:/var/lib/firebird/data/SymmetricClient
+firebird.root.db.url=jdbc:firebirdsql:localhost:/var/lib/firebird/data/SymmetricRoot 
 firebird.db.driver=org.firebirdsql.jdbc.FBDriver
 firebird.db.user=sysdba
 firebird.db.password=masterkey