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Informix Client SDK on Solaris 2.7

Posted in 2000

Topics: Installation, Setup & Upgrades, Connectivity: ODBC / JDBC / .NET, Connectivity: ESQL/C, 4GL & Embedded SQL, Networking & sqlhosts Configuration, Platform-Specific Issues

Mark Aardsma — — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

I am attempting to connect to an Informix server running on an HP-UX machine from a Sun Solaris box. I installed the Client SDK 2.40 on the Sun box and I am not able to connect. I get the following error from a simple esqlc program: Error -25574 while connecting to the database: Network driver cannot open the network device. My sqlhosts settings are: mbiodbc ontlitcp mbi 1004 Has anyone successfully set up the Client SDK on Solaris? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Mark

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Jonathan Leffler — — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

Mark Aardsma wrote: > I am attempting to connect to an Informix server running on an HP-UX > machine from a Sun Solaris box. I installed the Client SDK 2.40 on the > Sun box and I am not able to connect. I get the following error from a > simple esqlc program: > > Error -25574 while connecting to the database: Network driver cannot > open the network device. > > My sqlhosts settings are: > > mbiodbc ontlitcp mbi 1004> > Has anyone successfully set up the Client SDK on Solaris? Any help would > be greatly appreciated. Yes, and I've been using the reverse connection (HP-UX ClientSDK 2.40 to Solaris 7 IDS.2000) without problem. Can you ping the machine mbi? Can you rlogin to it? I assume yes. Are you sure that you've got the environment set as you expect? Probably. Since the server name, service type and (presumably) hostname are OK, the residual issue is "What did you mean by service name 1004"? If you expect that to be used as a number, only root will be able to use that service; all service numbers less than 1024 are reserved for root only. That is probably the source of your trouble. Do what you're supposed to do and create a service in /etc/services called, for example, mbiodbc, with port number 2004. On both the Sun and the HP. Modify the HP setup to use the new service number and not 1004 (it worked on the HP because oninit is a SUID root program and can do privileged operations like use a reserved port number). Then you should be OK. -- Jonathan Leffler (jleffler@informix.com, jleffler@earthlink.net) Guardian of DBD::Informix v1.00.PC1 -- see http://www.perl.com/CPAN #include <disclaimer.h>

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