Re: Connecting (IConnect) Solaris machine to a Linux server

On 11/29/05, Art S. Kagel <kagel@bloomberg.net> wrote: > Rupan3rd wrote: > > Hi there, I have a question for you smart guys. > > > > I have Sun Solaris 9 machine where Informix IConnect 10.0 is installed. > > The machine should make use of the database server (IDS 10.0) installed > > on a Red Hat EL4 Linux server. > > > > By default Linux does not provide 'rlogin' functionality, which is the > > default > > method used by Informix to make the connectivity. Now it is installed on > > my box. > > Not to worry, the underlying rcmd() interface is included in the Linux > libraries which is all that Informix requires. This works so... I am under the illusion that IDS does not use the rcmd() interface - whatever that is - and in fact does not require the r-commands installed on the machine to operate, unless you are doing ontape archives to a remote device. The communications between client and server or between server and server use the r-commands configuration files but that's all. The rest is in IDS. Do you have any evidence that the r-commands actually must be installed for IDS to work? > > AFAIU 'sqlhosts' files are different between the two platforms (Solaris > > uses > > 'oltlitcp' protocol, while Linux uses 'olsoctcp'). > > TLI (ontlitcp) and Sockets (onsoctcp) are just programming level APIs for > TCP/IP protocol communications. The network layer protocols are identical. > You use ontlitcp on the Solaris box and onsoctcp on the Linux box and all > is well. Just set it up like any Linux connection with that one exception. > > > Furthermore (but don't know if this is an issue), the default Informix > > install > > directory is different on the wto platforms ('/usr/informix' for Solaris VS > > '/opt/informix' on Linux). > > Irrelevent. > > > How should I configure the 'sqlhosts' file on the two boxes in order to > > obtain > > the connectivity? > > See above. > > > Anyhing else I should take care of? > > Nope. -- Jonathan Leffler #include <disclaimer.h> Email: jleffler@earthlink.net, jleffler@us.ibm.com Guardian of DBD::Informix v2005.02 -- http://dbi.perl.org/ sending to informix-list