Re: Q: Nobody else can read my database - why?

In article <Pine.A32.3.91.960202154016.53060B-100000@acs4.acs.ucalgary.ca>, Kirstie Anna Fisher <kafisher@acs.ucalgary.ca> says: > > >HI, > >I am a fairly new databse programmer - using Informix SE and character >based 4-GL. > >I made a database and wrote a 4gl front-end to access it. It works >great for me but nobody else can use it . > >I've playted around with access rules and stuff - I made it avallable >to public, etc... I even went in and changed the Unix permsissions on >the databse and higher directories to rwxrwxrwx (when I got >desperate - they've been changed back since) > >The other users can run the 4gl program but when they query the >databse, it returns nothing. >h >What am I missing? I'd like to think that I've covered the obvious ... >but maybe not >ANy suggestions? Can the other users access the database using ISQL or dbaccess? Have the other users got select permission on the tables as well as insert etc? This is in addition to granting connect to public on the database as a whole. Can you tell us what error messages other users get, or do they get absolutely nothing?