Re: Client Connections to Informix

forrey@wsu.edu (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 :people handle the administration of setting up many client workstations :connecting to an Informix host? Not only how are you handling the :configuration of client machines but also how are you handling the :distribution of client software? Our clients are spread out across the :State so it will be difficult to configure a machine in person. Thanks for :any insight. For this very reason (and several others) we try to avoid Informix CLI (or Connect) whenever we can. I know of no good way arround these problems (and several others). If you can use ODBC you avoide all these problems by using a server based driver like the one from OpenLink (http://www.openlinksw.com). Nils.Myklebust@idg.no NM Data AS, P.O.Box 9090 Gronland, N-0133 Oslo, Norway My opinions are those of my company The Informix FAQ is at http://www.iiug.org