Subject Re: Client connection problem
Author Aage Johansen
Joe Martinez wrote:
> > a) insert in the HOSTS file at the win95 client
> > 192.168.0.1 mydbserver
> > and connect with the string
> > mydbserver:c:\program files\myapp\data300.gdb
> > on the win95 client
>
> As I said in my origional message, we tried that, and got the same error
message.


Did you use the correct file? Use "hosts" (no extension!), not "hosts.sam"
or such like. If you used Notepad, you could easily have gotten a ".txt"
extension on the file (which isn't necessarily shown in Explorer).
Unless you can ping by name, the definition has not been successful.


Regards,
Aage J.