Re: Unix to NT database connectivity problems

Mark, to resolve the 908 error you will need to look into all the components of the connectivity equation, below is a checklist that you can employ. ====CHECKLIST FOR 908 error Ensure engine is online and all environment variables are set correctly. Check hosts file for machine name and ip address. Make sure they can ping server by ip address and by name. ping by name from server: note ip address ping by name from client: ip address should match If it does not, this may be a DNS issue. Ensure only unique port numbers are being used in services files. If using remote connection try connecting locally. (network and shared memory) If using remote client make sure client service is using the same port number the server network connection is using. Change password option to password in setnet. Try connection using ilogin on windows. Check network connection in sqlhosts file. Verify working properly. If port number works in sqlhosts but service name doesn't, may be an NIS/Yellow Pages problem. Are multiple network cards being used on server? If so put an * for the machine name in the sqlhosts file. Try using a different port number. Bounce the engine. ====== Mark Passi wrote: >From dbaccess, when I select the remote NT server I get the error "908: Attempt to connect to database server (ol_ntcst1) failed. Invalid Argument" > Mark Passi wrote: > > > I have been having trouble connecting to two of our Informix/NT 4.0 systems from our Informix/HP-UX systems after I upgraded the NT's from SP3 to either SP4 or SP5. I was able to use DBAccess and other Informix utilities from the HP's to work on the remote NT systems before the Service Pack upgrades. All other communications with the remote NT databases work properly. > > > > Currently our two HP-UX systems have Informix 7.30 TC3 and our 4 NT systems have Informix 7.30 TC9. The other two NT systems have not experienced the same problem as the other two, one is on SP4 and the other on SP5. > > > > Thank you in advance for any help you may be able to provide. > > > > Mark Passi > > Phillips Plastics Corporation > > markpassi@phillips-origen.com