Re: informix with NIS

a followup on this: it appears that the NIS client i had mentioned had informix v5, 6 and 7 servers running on it. After getting together with the DBAs and developers and testing all the databases, it was only informix v5.x that didn't work with NIS. Version 6.x and above seem to work ok. as a sysadmin, our soultion was to push them to upgrade, existing informix v5.x servers. :-) thx -rr Mahesh Ramachandran (rr@iriquois.eel.ufl.edu) wrote: > We recently converted a HP 9000 series 800 machine running hp-ux 9.04 > to an NIS client, rather than get passwords from /etc/passwd. The machine > also runs an informix server (v7.11). > The problem is that users (clients) can no longer connect, when they > run their programs (*.4ge). They get an error, which says that they > are not known by the database server, although they can login to the > server. Here is a typical error message: > > 17:29:16 listener-thread: err = -951: User xxx is not known on the database server.> > However, when i remove the user from NIS and put them back on /etc/passwd > on the informix server, everything works. > > So what am i looking at ... something buggy with NIS on hpux9.04 or doesn't > informix know how to look at NIS? (users are included through NIS using > netgroups) >