Re: Database connectivity

Posted in 1994

Clive Eisen — Fri, 11 Mar 1994 21:22:19 +0000 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

In article <2lo125$am1@emory.mathcs.emory.edu> hwigoda%seg7@seg7.arlingtonhgts.mnc.mot.com writes: > I get the following error when trying to attach to > an on-line database on a remote server. > > 908: Attempt to connect to database server (segfs001) failed. > Bad file number> > I've set up the /etc/hosts, /etc/services $INFORMIXDIR/etc/sqlhosts > files. Ah thats yur problem. Well depending on your unix variant and therefore the supposed level of security you will also need to look at /etc/hosts.equiv and the user MUST exist on both the client and the server machine. > > -- > ___ > / /( \\ \\ > | \\ | > \\ \\ _)/ / > (__ __) > : ^ : > """ > > -- Clive Eisen Email ceisen@deepthwt.demon.co.uk Clive Eisen Computing Phone (+44) 71 281 1414