Re: ODBC to Linux connection. Error -956?
That news group isn't part of the standard usenet news groups, but rather one you can only access via Informix's own news server. You can find that by going to http://www.informix.com/idn and go to the Linux part. However if you are behind a firewall like me it's unlikely you can access that news group because few firewalls will lett news through to you. Hopefully Informix will set up a web interface to the news group so you can use it via a standard web browser. That's easy enough for them to do. Please send a suggestion via their feedback mail adress at the IDN site if you have this problem. As to the ODBC problem I would suggest using another ODBC driver as the one from Informix isn't exactly known to be the best arround :-) Check the FAQ for alternatives. On Thu, 20 Aug 1998 10:29:44 -0500, Alex Yevzelman <yevz0001@tc.umn.edu> wrote: >Can you please post your configuration steps in this group because I was >unable to find informix.idn.linux group? The only group about informix >I could find is this one (comp.databases.informix). > >Thanks. >Alex. > >Joe Archer wrote: > >> Thanks Art, >> >> There were serveral issues. I've made a post on the group >> informix.idn.linux >> that shows all the steps taken to get things going. So, if anyone's >> interested in Linux and Informix, I suggest that you join that >> newsgroup and >> keep things cooking. >> >> Joe. >> >> Art S. Kagel wrote: >> >> > Joe Archer wrote: >> > > >> > > Hi, >> > > >> > > I'm trying to get a windows client to connect to my SE server on >> Linux >> > > (Red Hat 5.2). The problem I'm having is when I run Ilogin, I get >> an >> > > error -956 ("Client client-name is not in /etc/hosts.equiv on the >> > > remote host."). I can watch, when I try to connect, and see >> messages >> > > indicating that my client login is not accepted, so I know there >> are >> > > communications going back and forth over the net. >> > > >> > > So, I'm assuming that the message is correct. However, I don't >> have a >> > > "hosts.equiv". I have "hosts.allow" and "hosts.deny". How do you >> go >> > > about getting a connection from an ODBC client to the Linux >> server? >> > > Does anyone have an example of values to use on the Server and >> Client >> > > settings? >> > > >> > > Also, I'm using the Client SDK 2.01 with the Informix Driver >> 3.01. Any >> > > ideas will be greatly appreciated! >> > >> > Just create a /etc/hosts.equiv file there should be a manpage in >> man4 >> > describing the format but the simple format is: host user >> > means allow remote connections from username "user" from hostname >> > "host". That's it. Hosts.allow, hosts.deny, and hosts.lpd are used >> >> > for other similar purposes. >> > >> > Art S. Kagel >> > > > > Nils Myklebust NM Data AS Norway E-mail: Nils.Myklebust@nmdata.com FAQ at: http://www.iiug.org/techinfo/faq/faq_top.html (Now with ODBC info under "Third party products".)