Re: Connection problems to 5.x - Please Help

Richard Spitz wrote: > > Darrel, Davis wrote: > > > I'm having some big problems getting a vb app (using CLI/ODBC) to connect > > to a UNIX server running Informix online 5.01. [...] I am getting > > error -945 (client is not known to database server) when I try to > > connect. [...] I'm on a DHCP network which means that my IP is assigned > > and may be different each time. > > In Online 5.x (+ I-Star, I'm sure you have this installed since it is > the prerequisite for network access under 5.x), the client must indeed > be "known" to the server, meaning that its network name can be resolved > via /etc/hosts. AFAIK, DNS name resolution isn't sufficient, but I may > be wrong here. > > Since you have dynamic IP address assignment with DHCP, you're probably > out of luck with any I-Net based ODBC solution (like CLI). You should > try one of the ODBC solutions that are server based, such als OpenLink > or SQLRetriever. SCO SQL-Retriever. Take a look at http://www.sco.com/vision/products/sqlretriever/ for more information and a downloadable eval. Allan Gould (allang at sco dot com) (Please remove anti-spam measures if replying)