Cannot issue oninit to IDS 11.5 on Windows Vista

Hi, can someone explain what's happening here and how I can get around it. I installed 11.5 from the IIUG site onto my Vista Business SP1 laptop. I opted to run it under the informix account without role separation. The installation created a new user called informix. But if I login as informix and open up a console I can't start the database. It's quite happy for me to shut it down using onmode -ky but when I enter oninit is says "Only members of IXDBSA group (Informix-Admin, by default) can start IBM Informix Dynamic Server" Can anyone tell me what's happeing here and what I need to do to be able to control the instance from the command line? Thanks in advance, Richard

I should say that the informix user is a member of group informix- admin. Cheers R

Richard M. schrieb: > Hi, can someone explain what's happening here and how I can get around > it. > > I installed 11.5 from the IIUG site onto my Vista Business SP1 laptop. > I opted to run it under the informix account without role separation. > The installation created a new user called informix. > > But if I login as informix and open up a console I can't start the > database. It's quite happy for me to shut it down using onmode -ky but > when I enter oninit is says > "Only members of IXDBSA group (Informix-Admin, by default) can start > IBM Informix Dynamic Server" > > Can anyone tell me what's happeing here and what I need to do to be > able to control the instance from the command line? Use regedit to check if the group Informix-Admin is mentioned in HKLM\\SOFTWARE\\Informix\\OnLine\\<INFORMIXSERVER>\\Security\\IXDBSA Group and HKLM\\SOFTWARE\\Informix\\DBMS\\11.50\\Security\\IXDBSA Group There should be string values domain = <computer name> name = Informix-Admin HTH and best regards Christian