Re: NT (db)access to solaris server
Posted in 1998
Robert Bresner <rbresner@olf.com> wrote in article
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> Howdy...
> I've got an Informix 7.23 Solaris version installed.
> I want to load a file into it from the command line, using the likes of
>
> dbaccess my_db@my_server - < my_sql_file.sql
>
> The catch is, I want to do it from NT. DBAccess doesn't exist on NT,
because
> I have not (and don't intend to) installed the NT Informix server. Also,
it's
> been rumoured
> that DBAccess.exe on NT cannot connect to a Solaris Informix server
anyway. So.
>
> 1. Can a windows version of DBAccess connect to a non-windows
Informix
> server and load,
> via the command line, an sql file?
> 2. If (1), how do I installed DBAccess without installing the entire
> Informix server on NT?
>
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I have connected to an HP/UX Informix server from NT dbaccess. You must
explicity use the "connect" command in dbaccess (supplying user name and
password), but other than that it has worked as expected.