Re: Networking Informix-SE7 and WindowsNT/SQL-Server6

For Informix 7.x I-Net is a must on the PC side, I-STAR is autotmatic. For Informix 5.x I-Net is a must on the PC side and I-STAR on the server side. All said and done you HAVE to have I-NET!!!!!! ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Cheryl Kendricks Internet:cherylk@prod1.jcdc.doleta.gov OR kendric@gwysmtp.jcdc.doleta.gov OR cherylk@spamis.jcdc.doleta.gov DTSI, Inc. Voice: 1-800-598-5008 Database Administrator - DOL Job Corps San Marcos, Texas ------------------------------------------------------------------------ On Fri, 19 Apr 1996, Paul Mansfield wrote: } We've been moderately successful in making connections between } two Sparc/Solaris2.4/Informix-SE7 machines, so that dbaccess on } machine A can talk to database on machine B. Ok, so it sounds easy } until you come to read the manuals. } } Then, we defined a port so that an Intel/Win-NT/SQl-Server-6 machine } could try and talk to the Inf-SE server, but all we got were errors } (but they did *try* and talk). Also, we tried it the other way } round and the NT box reported login failures. } } According to both Informix and Frontline's Informix Hotline, we } need something called I-Net, or "ESQL/I-Net for Windows NT". } } The manuals make occasional references to I-Star and I-Net, } though there's no one place these are actually defined (I've been } trying to use the administrators manual) and discussed. A search } on the Informix WWW site has helped slightly. } } Please can someone confirm that (a) this is what we really want } (b) does something useful } } Thanks for any helpful hints and ideas } } Paul } ------------------------------------------------------------------------ } Paul Mansfield, E-mail: p.mansfield@motiv.co.uk } Internet Consultant, http://www.motiv.co.uk on Solaris2.4 } Motiv Systems Ltd, Voice : [44+223]/(01223) 576318 } Orwell House, Fax : 576319 } Cowley Road, } Cambridge CB4 4WY, } England. } ----------------------------------------------------------------------- }