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 > >-------------------------------------------- >Take off Late, Get Deep, Go Down Hard... > >nick@kcicorp.com (Nick Palmer) >KCI Computing International - (310-643-0222) Standard Disclaimer