Re: error -908: why?

Posted in 1998

joe vanderveen — Wed, 22 Jul 1998 21:21:15 -0400 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

use finderr .. I don't have it at home .. but 908 is familier .. what are you trying to connect from ? If NT or 95 check the services file to make sure that sqlexec is there ... (use find to find the file on 95) on NT it will be under winnt/system32/drivers/etc. If your trying to connect to a Unix box, you will need this ... jamie kupka wrote in message <35AF3613.7A49D15D@netscape.com>... >hi there; > > here is the situation: i installed an informix db a couple of >months ago, and it has woked fine. when i tried to connect to the >database, i got error -908: attempt to connect to database server >failed. i checked my environment vars..and they are the same as >always. same goes for sqlhosts.ifmx and onconfig. > what are some possible reasons i can no longer connect to the db >server?? > >tia; > >jamie >