Re: Error accessing IDS 9.4 on Windows

dlgllhn@inhisstepssoftware.com wrote: > Guy Bowerman wrote: > >>The "not trusted" error relates to TCP trusts. You would need to > > connect > >>with a user name and password, or add the client user or machine to >>%SystemRoot%\\system32\\drivers\\etc\\hosts.equiv on the server. >> >>Since entries in hosts.equiv effectively remove security from your >>machine, connecting with a user name and password is recommended. > > > 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? > > I'm testing Informix on Windows XP Pro workstation for now. Will a > login to attach to a shared directory be sufficient? > Thanks > > Don Gollahon > Yes, but the login does not have to be login-able. It need not have a valid password if remote host is trusted (ie for UNIX systems the host has an entry in /etc/hosts.equiv or in the user's .rhosts file). And if a password is desirable to permit logins from multiple or unknown hosts, then the user's shell can be force a logout so that ONLY database access is permitted on the server. Art S. Kagel