Re: ODBC to Linux connection. Error -956?

Thanks Art, There were serveral issues. I've made a post on the group informix.idn.linux that shows all the steps taken to get things going. So, if anyone's interested in Linux and Informix, I suggest that you join that newsgroup and keep things cooking. Joe. Art S. Kagel wrote: > Joe Archer wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > I'm trying to get a windows client to connect to my SE server on Linux > > (Red Hat 5.2). The problem I'm having is when I run Ilogin, I get an > > error -956 ("Client client-name is not in /etc/hosts.equiv on the > > remote host."). I can watch, when I try to connect, and see messages > > indicating that my client login is not accepted, so I know there are > > communications going back and forth over the net. > > > > So, I'm assuming that the message is correct. However, I don't have a > > "hosts.equiv". I have "hosts.allow" and "hosts.deny". How do you go > > about getting a connection from an ODBC client to the Linux server? > > Does anyone have an example of values to use on the Server and Client > > settings? > > > > Also, I'm using the Client SDK 2.01 with the Informix Driver 3.01. Any > > ideas will be greatly appreciated! > > Just create a /etc/hosts.equiv file there should be a manpage in man4 > describing the format but the simple format is: host user > means allow remote connections from username "user" from hostname > "host". That's it. Hosts.allow, hosts.deny, and hosts.lpd are used > for other similar purposes. > > Art S. Kagel >