Re: Informix Connection without Unix ID

dave, you wrote : >I would like to be able to connect a lot of windows clients (Win95, >Win3.1) to an unix box without an account (user and password) defined >for each one in the unix side. I wouldn't like to have a unique user >for all my clients. > >I know that Oracle/Sybase maintain a list of user ids internal to the >database. Is this possible in Informix? Some of our customer use exaclty the configuration you describe here. Only one Unix account to connect to one or several Informix database. So my answer is Yes it's possible with Informix . (We do the same with Oracle) What sort of details do you want exactly ? HTH FB-) ------------------------------------------------------ Frederic BOUQUET Client/Server & SQL RDBMS email: fbouquet@cornut.fr http://www.cornut.fr/