Re: Error accessing IDS 9.4 on Windows

dlgllhn@inhisstepssoftware.com wrote: > I'll try that. So, a user has to have an actual login to the physical > Informix Server in order to access it? Doesn't sound like a good idea > to me. This is not required of any other RDBMS I have used. Is this a > remnant of Informix being on UNIX where users normally logged-in to the > server as a terminal so a user account existed anyway? No, it's a platform-independant security requirement that prevents an untrusted client from creating a user on their machine ('informix' for example), and connecting to your database server without verification. Some other RDBMSs may handle this by having their own users and passwords independant of the OS, but they'll all have some method of preventing unauthorized access. If you really want users to connect from remote machines with no verification then go ahead and put entries in your hosts.equiv file (or just put a '+' to trust all clients). > > I'm testing Informix on Windows XP Pro workstation for now. Will a > login to attach to a shared directory be sufficient? If the login is a valid user on the machine it should be sufficient, unless you selected the role separation option during IDS install. Guy > Thanks > > Don Gollahon >