Re: Connection problems to 5.x - Please Help

"Stewart & Bronwyn Hague" <bronwyn_stu@clear.net.nz> offerred: +We have had a similar problem, a dirty solution to this problem is to set +up generic /etc/hosts entries for the whole range of DHCP assigned IP +addresses. + +Richard Spitz <richard.spitz@ana.med.uni-muenchen.de> wrote in article +<35C01D11.F3DDB1B5@ana.med.uni-muenchen.de>... +> Darrel, Davis wrote: +> +> > I'm having some big problems getting a vb app (using CLI/ODBC) to +connect +> > to a UNIX server running Informix online 5.01. [...] I am getting +> > error -945 (client is not known to database server) +> +> In Online 5.x, the client must indeed +> be "known" to the server, meaning that its network name can be resolved +> via /etc/hosts. AFAIK, DNS name resolution isn't sufficient, but I may +> be wrong here. One option available, assuming that you have an NT system that is handing out the ip addresses, is to have NT run the DNS service. You could then also run WINS, which is sort of Microsoft's attempt at DNS. WHen both are running, you can configure DNS on NT to use WINS for hostname resolution when DNS can't resolve the name. WINS works with DHCP to resolve the hostname down to an ip address. Then, you'd only have to make the hostnames trusted, and no matter what the current ip assignment, the resolution should identify them correctly. Dave ** Dave Kosenko <davek@summitdata.com> ** Director of Training Services (732) 469-4070 ** Summit Data Group (an Informix Authorized Education Center) ** Find my advice useful? Let me teach you everything I know about ** Informix. Sign up for OFFICIAL Informix training at SDG. ** For details, see http://www.summitdata.com/training