RE: Communications service

one possibility : Where is your server/client ? Is the server behind the firewall ? Firewall may restrict to access Informix server, if server is behind firewall. thanks Ravi Yarlagadda -----Original Message----- From: Gregory Taane [mailto:greg.taane@crt.co.nz] Sent: Monday, August 21, 2000 12:31 AM To: 'informix-list@iiug.org' Subject: Communications service Hi there I am trying to set up Informix ODBC drivers on AIX 4.3 The sqlhosts file looks like this: devdata_se seipcpip devdata sqlexec devdata_se setlitcp devdata se2 # Added 27/01/00 for ODBC devdata_se sesoctcp devdata se3 When I try and run the sql daemon I get this: -25592 Communications service not supported by network driver. The network service that was requested for this connection, such as TCP with sockets or TCP with TLI, is not available on the desired system or the specified database server. Use a supported network service; verify that the nettype field is correctly specified for the desired database server in the $INFORMIXDIR/etc/sqlhosts file. If the network service is available on the system but not on the database server, ask your DBA to turn on the service when the DBA initializes the database server. I have spent a lot of time running in circles and didn't set any of this up. Any help would be much appreciated Thanks