Re: Windows 95 and Inet

In <46p9qb$oje@hunter.premier.net> jay@ucfc.mhs.compuserve.com (Jay Aymond) writes: >william@carsinfo.com (William Harris) wrote: >>In article <46olap$mp2@hunter.premier.net>, jay@ucfc.mhs.compuserve.com >>says... >>>When we try to connect to our SCO Unix based Informix Online database from >>>Windows 95, we get a message that say "WSNO_getserverbyname error". >>Your services file was probably overwritten by Windows 95 when it was >>installed, thus losing the service names, numbers, and protocols you had set >>up for the previous (working) Windows configuration. Re-adding your services >>to \\windows\\services is a first step; also make sure you don't have any other >>services files laying around from other pre-Windows 95 TCP products. >>-- >>William Harris william@carsinfo.com >>CARS Information Systems http://www.carsinfo.com/~william/ >>4000 Executive Park Drive >>Cincinnati, OH (USA) 45241 >Thanks.... it was the services file. >Jay Aymond >United Companies Life Insurance Company >Email: jay@ucfc.mhs.compuserve.com I had a slight problem with the services file: my sqlexec entry was in the file, but it still did not work. The problem was that the sqlexec line was the last line in the file. When I put it in order, everything worked fine. here is how it should look: . . . ingreslock 1524/tcp sqlexec 1525/tcp maze 1666/udp . . . I hope this helps someone. Joe