Re: sqgetdbs

Thanks for the information Jonathan...I was finally able to get the error message text and with some trial and error (guessing??) found out that ontlitcp (in the sqlhosts) should have been onsoctcp on the AIX end and ontlitcp on the Solaris end. I do not have the engine installed on the AIX end - so there was nothing to let me know which protocol to use. Also no dbaccess to test the connection - just Esql/c and connect. Anyways - thanks for your help Maria Jonathan Leffler wrote: > On Tue, 28 Jul 1998, Maria Wilson wrote: > > > I am testing a connection between an AIX 4.2 machine(client) and the > > database server(Solaris) using the dbnames esql/c script. The aix > > machine has connect and esql/c installed and the rest of the Informix > > software is on the Solaris machine. > > I am getting an error > > error code 25507 from sqgetdbs > > anyone out there have any idea what this is telling me? > > $ finderr +25507> 25507 You specified an unknown service name or protocol. > > Tell your database administrator to examine the sqlhosts file entry. > Check that the NETTYPE settings in the ONCONFIG file match the NETTYPE > settings in the sqlhosts file. > > If you are using the TCP/IP protocol, check that the correct service > name appears in the /etc/services file. If you are using NFS, use > ypmake to check the /etc/services file. Sometimes the daemon does not > recognize service names that are added after a default boot. > > $ > > Your networking connections are not set up correctly, and you cannot > connect to the Solaris databases from the AIX machine using DB-Access. > Once you can do that, you should be able to run 'dbnames' without errors. > > Yours, > Jonathan Leffler (jleffler@informix.com) #include <witticism.h> > Guardian of DBD::Informix v0.59 -- see http://www.perl.com/CPAN -- -------------------------------------------------------- Maria L. Wilson 757.766.8265 Computer Sciences Corporation 757.766.2571 fax NASA Langley Research Center m.l.wilson@larc.nasa.gov 3217 North Armistead Ave. http://www.larc.nasa.gov Hampton, Va 23666 -------------------------------------------------------- If there is no God, who pops up the next Kleenex? -- Art Hoppe --------------------------------------------------------