Re: Cannot create/access database on NFS mount.

Hello Laurin, Jonathan, >> I'm not posting from t-online.de (where'd you get that from.) >Dunno - sorry. I misread something. i recently moved to Germany... anyways: as far as i can see it's a SE so you probably started sqlexecd as root with the enviroment set properly; eq INFORMIXDIR, DBPATH etc started like $INFORMIXDIR/lib/sqlexecd rm5 on unix check it using dbaccess -->> choose connection and choose rm5 then all should work i saw that you got it working so you filled in setnet32 correctly. hope the above clarifys bits and pieces This: > (actually PHP has an Informix > lib, but i have to recompile for that and I'm not sure I'm ready to > tackle that.) is Jonathan's department... however connecting from windowze or a different machine will stil require the setup you have done to get odbc to work.... See you Superboer -- laurin1 schreef: > Your input does help me understand better though. > > Seeing as I'm not sure how I got it working, and I really need to > understand this better. Can you explain this comment more: > > "he r5 entry is interesting; if you use it, your client code will run > sqlexecd, which will go into the background, so this one client will > fail. But the clients that follow will have an sqlexecd available. > Hmmm; interesting. " > > BTW, I'm using Access and PHP via ODBC (actually PHP has an Informix > lib, but i have to recompile for that and I'm not sure I'm ready to > tackle that.)