Re: Trouble talking to Online 7.24 on Sun from an NT Workstation
Try checking \\WINNT\\SYSTEM32\\DRIVERS\\ETC\\SERVICES file on your client.
The port number assigned must be similar to the SUN host /etc/services
On Mon, 11 May 1998 15:53:42 -0700, Nicholas Palmer <nick@kcicorp.com>
wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>Not sure where to turn so I thought I'd try this place first. I've set
>up a simple online 7.24 database on our sun box (Sparc 20, Solaris 2.4)
>so that we could test out Informix. I'm pretty sure that online is up
>and running because from the sun box itself I can run dbaccess and
>onmonitor and oncockpit. My client workstation is an NT workstations
>4.0 box. I've got ICONNECT installed on my box. I picked every option
>when I do the install, so I get all the programs. My problem appears to
>be this. From the readme for the Online database it seems that informix
>only supports the following protocols on my platform:
>TLI using TCP/IP
>TLI using IPX/SPX
>IPC using stream pipe.
>
>No problem I thought, so I set up TLI using TCP/IP. Setup the services
>file, and the sqlhosts (ontlitcp setting) files, and the onconfig file
>(I use an alias?) for the tcp servername in the sqlhosts file, and
>online starts up fine. So I go to my client and try to do the setup
>using the setnet32 program but when I get to the protocolname selection,
>ontlitcp is not on the list of available protocols. Now I'm stuck. So
>I go back to my server, stop online. Edit the sqlhosts file to try the
>Sockets using TCP/IP protocol (onsoctcp) setting. Now when I try to
>startup Online, it fails giving some strange error message. Put it back
>to TLI using TCP and it starts up. I don't have the software on my sun
>to do IPX/SPX and my understanding is that IPC can't be used over a
>network. How can I configure what protocols the client uses. Is the
>protocol list determined at install time. Any suggestions would be
>greatly appreciated.
>
>Thanks in advance.
>Nick
>
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