RE: 25507 You specified an unknown service name or protocol.

In NT the sqlhosts file is configured using I-Connect. If a client running on NT wants to connect to the DB server on Sun the service that you should specify is "onsoctcp" not "ontlitcp". Don -----Original Message----- From: Lukasz Feldman [mailto:lukasz@atm.com.pl] Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2000 2:57 AM To: informix-list@iiug.org Subject: Re: 25507 You specified an unknown service name or protocol. Uzytkownik "Jonathan Leffler" <jleffler@informix.com> napisal w wiadomosci news:39DA2700.F82FBE92@informix.com... > Lukasz Feldman wrote: > > ok. another test. > > reboot of informix : > > 1. onmode -ky > > 2. oninit > > > > as a result > > "25507 You specified an unknown service name or protocol. " > > If there's a question in there, I didn't spot it. > > I suspect you meant "so what's wrong". We can't tell; you did not give > us enough information. > > What's your platform? What's in your sqlhosts file? What's in your > onconfig file? And what do you get from 'oninit -V' and 'oninit -v'? > What's left in the message log file (at the end, after the onmode -ky > takes effect). > > Most likely, you've specified onsoctcp in the sqlhosts file on a machine > that supports ontlitcp, or vice versa. This is what "finderr +25507" > implies, though > it is hardly explicit about it (which is why I've copied the doc alias > on this message). > > You might also note that this is the only positive error number in the > Informix canon of error messages -- damn it! All other error numbers > are negative. > > -- > Yours, > Jonathan Leffler (Jonathan.Leffler@Informix.com) #include <disclaimer.h> > Guardian of DBD::Informix v1.00.PC1 -- http://www.perl.com/CPAN > "I don't suffer from insanity; I enjoy every minute of it!" Ok. I understand what you arguee about incomplete description of a casus. But if you could give me one answer. How can I connect NT Client with socekts to informix db on SUN woking on with tli? I did and it doesn't work. Lukasz