Informix Server 9.4 Installation Problem
Posted in 2003
I was trying to install the Informix Server 9.4 (downloaded from iiug site)
on to a Windows Xp machine .The server does start up by "starts ol_ibm" and
I can see the output of onstat . However on invoking dbaccess I get the
Error "-908 Attempt to connect to database server (servername) failed." .
Also, During Initialization the "sysmaster" database is not built .Digging
further I have found that the Local machine password should be same as the
informix password . As far as I know I do not have a password for my local
machine . How can I solve this issue ? . I tried logging in as user
"informix" and without a password I did not work .
My machine's name is "IBM" and during previous installation of IDS ( IDS
PE) it was called "DEFAULT" , I looked up the hosts files ,there is an
entry for localhost "127.0.0.1 DEFAULT" . do I need to change it to
"IBM" as that is the name of my machine now ?.
sqlhosts shows the entry "turbo 1526/tcp" ,which I presume is
correct.
Somehow the initialization is not picking the correct values and fails to
create smi tables.
Anybody encountered similar problem ?. would appreciate any pointers .
Thanks
Navdeep
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