Administering Windows IDS via telnet/ssh

All: We have some Windows 2000/XP IDS 9.x servers on which we'd like to perform some administrative tasks (e.g. onstat to analyze the engine, onspaces to add chunks, etc.) via lightweight character-mode connections (e.g. telnet to the MS Telnet server, or ssh to the Cygwin SSH daemon) that do not have access to the desktop. If there's anybody already doing this sort of thing, could you contact me off-list? I can't seen to get beyond this error message: ERROR: Could not initialize the security subsystem. Please ensure that this account has the necessary privileges and ensure INFORMIXSERVER value exists in the registry and environment. Thanks! -- John Hardin KA7OHZ <johnh@aproposretail.com> Internal Systems Administrator voice: (425) 672-1304 Apropos Retail Management Systems, Inc. fax: (425) 672-0192 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ...the Fates notice those who buy chainsaws... -- www.darwinawards.com

Answering my own question; sigh. On Wed, 26 May 2004 21:58:20 +0000, John Hardin wrote: > ERROR: Could not initialize the security subsystem. Please ensure that > this account has the necessary privileges and ensure INFORMIXSERVER value > exists in the registry and environment. Okay, it looks like you can't use server aliases in $INFORMIXSERVER - you have to use the primary server name... dbaccess has problems, but other stuff appears to be working. -- John Hardin KA7OHZ <johnh@aproposretail.com> Internal Systems Administrator voice: (425) 672-1304 Apropos Retail Management Systems, Inc. fax: (425) 672-0192 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ...the Fates notice those who buy chainsaws... -- www.darwinawards.com