Re: Client Connections to Informix

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 As far as I know, you can use IP-adresses and Port-numbers instead of names, so you don't have to make entries in hosts and services. You'll have to make entries in the Registry however (done by setnet32, e.g.). We use a KIXTART- script to automate these entries. I don't have the original post, so I can't email this to Dale, Peter ============================ Peter Kolmhofer Database Engineer Porsche Informatik Austria email: kop@porsche.co.at