Re: Accessing Online with NIS.

davin_harvey@dsti.co.uk wrote: > > Message is sent with MIME. Attachments are base64 encoded > > --TFS-with-MIME-and-DIME > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable > > Hi All, > =20 > We are currently using Informix V7=2E12 on AIX 4, with NIS=2E I canno= > t=20 > connect to any database unless I have an entry like "+ informix" in=20 > the /etc/hosts=2Eequiv file=2E I was under the impression that I coul= > d=20 > put something in ~/=2Erhosts to get me in, but nothing I've tried work= > s=2E > Does anybody know how I do this? I can't read all you say after your mail reader has spat out your posting, but place the hostname in a file called '.rhosts' in the users home directory. The dot (.) IS important. ^ Hope that helps, -- Mark. +----------------------------------------------------------+-----------+ |Mark D. Stock - Informix SA http://www.informix.com |//////// /| |mailto:mdstock@informix.com FAQ http://www.iiug.org |///// / //| | +-----------------------------------+//// / ///| | Tel: +27 11 807 0313 |If it's slow, the users complain. |/// / ////| | Fax: +27 11 807 2594 |If it's fast, the users keep quiet.|// / /////| |Cell: +27 83 250 2325 |Therefore, "No news: travels fast"!|/ ////////| +----------------------+-----------------------------------+-----------+