Re: Windows NT Service Pack 4

Nigel Campbell schrieb: > > This is a multi-part message in MIME format. > --------------DE0128F0644471D5B98D0F50 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > Unlike other components, you cannot change ini/registry entries for your > computer to refer to localhost instead of the name of your computer. SP4 > mangled my environments for ORACLE, Teradata and Informix. I had to go and > remain as SP4 for SQL Server 7. Scoping the the exe that this service > references in terms of file and registry access seems to show that the > compute rname/active computer is being referenced from the TCPIP related > configs in the current control set page of the registry. As such, I cannot > work around my NT SP4 problem of looking for my machine as > wotacampbelni.cognos.com which fails. Sorry if I state the obvious (I didnt follow this thread) but cant you at least fix the problem by putting <your machines ip> wotacampbelni.cognos.com into your hosts file? Regards, dirk -- -- Dirk Gunsthoevel phone: +49 (0)251 624947 -- Hoeftestr.49 fax: +49 (0)251 624177 -- 48167 Muenster mobile: +49 (0)171 8047582 -- Germany http://members.aol.com/Plabit/welcome.html