Re: Client Connections to Informix

Posted in 1997

Ian Goddard — Mon, 10 Feb 1997 13:09:19 -0800 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

Dale Forrey wrote: > > I have installed my first instance of Informix 7.20 on an IBM AIX > box. I then installed Informix CLI 2.50 on my Windows 95 workstation and > discovered that I had to have an entry in the hosts and services files on my > workstation. My next discovery was that there also had to be an entry for > my machine in the /etc/hosts.equiv file on the UNIX box. Since these > entries did not happen automatically with the installation of CLI how do Given the security implications of what appears in /etc/hosts Informix are quite right not to try to create entries automatically. Ian