Re: What do I need to do in order to connect client apps to the

On 13 Feb 97 at 11:21, Lysik, Steve wrote: > The error message is Informix number -932: > A general exception has occurred during operation 'attach database'. > Error on network connection, unknown connection problem system call > failed. > > I can connect and attach to the database through DBACCESS on the > server. > > I can ping the host and have added the INFORMIXDIR variable and > C:\\INFORMIX to the path in Windows NT. The service name and host > name on client and server are ok Boy, this rings a bell. I don't know if this is the same problem we had with our NewEra to NT OnLine connectivity, but what we found was that although the ping worked fine, the I-Net (or whatever) was looking up the wrong connection. The way we verified this was to attempt the connection and then, very quickly, run a netstat in a separate window. This showed us that connections were opened to a different machine than we were expecting to connect to (based on the ping). If this does turn out to be your problem, e-mail me and I'll see if I can dredge out the solution from the guy who actually fixed it. HTH. -- Ciao, Billy "...nod's as good as a wink to a blind bat..."