Informix Online 7, Sparc, Solaris, NIS

I couldn't find it in the FAQ, but it might be there, in which case sorry for asking. Informix Online 7.1, SparcStation4, Solaris2.5, originally installed without NIS, and NIS added recently. I have a database called "intranet", and I can connect to it using dbaccess in a perfectly normal way from the host without problems. However, when using a remote machine (we have /etc/hosts.equiv set up to allow all machines to share each other's resources), I now find that I need to set the server up to have my username in /etc/passwd and password in /etc/shadow, otherwise dbaccess reports that the username isn't known by the server. Surely Informix Online uses proper system calls to interrogate details of the user, rather than accessing the passwd/shadow files directly? I can't find anything in the "onconfig" file that indicates whether there's a flag I've missed... Please email me and I'll post the results to the group as well as to the IIUG. Thanks Paul P.S. note the mangled email address to trip-up spam-'bots! -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Paul Mansfield, Internet Consultant @ Motiv Systems Ltd snailto:Orwell House.Cowley Road.Cambridge.CB4 4WY.UK Webto: http://www.motiv.co.uk and http://java.motiv.co.uk mailto:p.mansfield@motiv.co.uk phoneto:[+44+223] 576318 faxto:~319 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 28.8:is it the IQ, or the typical modem speed, on Usenet?