Re: Windows 95 and Inet

In article <46r6a0$ovi@panix.com>, Joe Centenni <jcentenn@panix.com> wrote: >In <46p9qb$oje@hunter.premier.net> jay@ucfc.mhs.compuserve.com (Jay Aymond) writes: > >>william@carsinfo.com (William Harris) wrote: > >>>In article <46olap$mp2@hunter.premier.net>, jay@ucfc.mhs.compuserve.com >>>says... >>>>When we try to connect to our SCO Unix based Informix Online database from >>>>Windows 95, we get a message that say "WSNO_getserverbyname error". > >>>Your services file was probably overwritten by Windows 95 when it was >>>installed, thus losing the service names, numbers, and protocols you had set >>>up for the previous (working) Windows configuration. Re-adding your services >>>to \\windows\\services is a first step; also make sure you don't have any other >>>services files laying around from other pre-Windows 95 TCP products. >>>-- >>>William Harris william@carsinfo.com >>>CARS Information Systems http://www.carsinfo.com/~william/ >>>4000 Executive Park Drive >>>Cincinnati, OH (USA) 45241 > > >>Thanks.... it was the services file. >>Jay Aymond >>United Companies Life Insurance Company > >>Email: jay@ucfc.mhs.compuserve.com > >I had a slight problem with the services file: my sqlexec entry was in the >file, but it still did not work. The problem was that the sqlexec line >was the last line in the file. When I put it in order, everything worked >fine. > >here is how it should look: >. >. >. >ingreslock 1524/tcp >sqlexec 1525/tcp >maze 1666/udp > >I hope this helps someone. > It is also a good idea to append at least one blank line to the end of the SERVICES file (and possibly the HOSTS file as well) when using any of the Microsoft tcp-ip stacks, I experienced the last line being ignored with the freeware WFWG-3.11 tcp-ip stack and ever since then, have always added a blank line at the end, just for good measure, in case they haven't fixed the bug by now. (currently using Win-95) -- ===================================================================== = Neal Howard neal@metronet.com '91 XLH-1200 DoD #686 AMA NRA = = "Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bear, Fuzzy Wuzzy had no hair. If Fuzzy Wuzzy = = had no hair, then Fuzzy Wuzzy wasn't Fuzzy, wuz he ?!!!" = =====================================================================