RE: DHCP and D4GL WTK Client
Actually I was talking about the standard login box: the one that prompts for hostname, username, etc. You can turn off some of these things in the WTKSRV.INI, but I couldn't figure out how to make the box completely disappear. Ideas on this? /Ron On Thu, 14 Sep 2000, Nigel Gall wrote: > Ron, I don't think you'll have to worry about the login authorization prompt > being a hassle if you ensure that the D4GL server is not one of the DHCP > clients. As Emmanuel Soden wrote in his response, once you answer yes to > the prompt, it creates a line in %WINDIR%\\rhosts similar to the following: > > <D4GL server hostname> <username> > > He said it was IP address, but on my W2K client it writes the server's > hostname. \\it won't matter if the PC gets a new DHCP lease, because the > client IP address is only used to manage concurrent license usage, not login > authorization. > > So the prompt will only happen if: > > - The user logs in on that client for the first time. > > - If the client's %WINDIR%\\rhosts file becomes corrupted for some reason. > > A wo-worker of mine also discovered that if the DHCP leased IP addresses are > not resolvable in /etc/hosts (and/or I suspect the NIS hosts file) then the > WTK client would take very long to complete the login, eventually giving a > *hostname mismatch* error. So it may be necessary to enter the entire list > of possible leased IP addresses into the D4GL server's /etc/hosts (or NIS). > For my small site, this may be no hassle, but this is a horrible thing for a > big site with Class B or more DHCP leases. A script to print all the > possible leased IP addresses would need to be written. Can someone confirm > if this is really needed? > > Best regards, > > Edmund Nigel Gall > Senior Information Systems Specialist > Process Plant Services Limited > Atlantic Avenue, Point Lisas Industrial Estate > Point Lisas, Couva, Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. > Tel: (868) 636 2906 x 274 Fax: (868) 679 3770 > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Ron M. Flannery [mailto:rflanner@speedlink.net] > Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2000 11:28 AM > To: Jonathan Leffler > Cc: informix-list@iiug.org > Subject: Re: DHCP and D4GL WTK Client > > > > Jonathan wrote: > > > - When you login for the first time after installation, you get prompted > to > > > confirm authorization for <username> on <client IP address>. Does this > eman > > > that licensing is handled using IP addresses? If yes, would we expect > users > > > to have to answer this prompt everytime they login and receive a > different > > > IP address? > > > > I know the popup you mean. I've forgotten (assuming I ever knew) why > > that > > happens and how you suppress it. I'm sure there is a way to do it, > > but... > > Drat, I hate it when I start to answer and can't finish! > > > > RE: IP addresses/licenses - I just did some research on this issue and > discovered that licensing works like this: > > 1. If you're on a PC and using the WTK client, you can run multiple > sessions and only use one license - they are counted by the IP address. > > 2. If you're starting character-based sessions, each session will take a > license, even if they're from telnets from the same PC. > > I'm not yet sure how to eliminate the login box. Perhaps it's a setting > in the WTKSRV.INI file on the PC, but I haven't been able to figure it out. > > /Ron > > ________________________________________________________________________ > Ron Flannery <mailto:rflanner@informixhandbook.com>, 248-887-8470x40 > > Lead author, Informix Handbook President, One Point Solutions > "Your Complete Reference" "Informix & Web/Database solutions" > http://www.informixhandbook.com http://www.one-point.com > ________________________________________________________________________ >