Thank You all for the replies.

I tried all your suggestions in this order:

1. ps xa |grep ib does show that ibserver is running

2. ISQL provides the following help information, I reproduce below what is shown on the screen:

[sujan@localhost bin]$ isql
********************************************
* unixODBC - isql *
********************************************
* Syntax
* isql DSN [UID [PWD]] [options]
*
* Options
* -b Batch. No prompting etc
* -dx Delimit cols with x
* -w Wrap results in an HTML table
* -v Verbose
*
*etc. etc. ********************************

How do i create a DSN? Is it some kind of ODBC DSN?

3. when I run ISQL, I dont get the SQL> prompt, it just dumps me back to the command line with the help message and no errors.

4. I searched for the libcrypt library and found the following files:

libcrypt-2.2.2.so /lib
libcrypt.so.1 /lib
libcrypto.so.0 /lib
libcrypto.so.0.9.6 /usr/lib

5. In ibaccess when it asks for the server name I type "localhost" or should I type "localhost.localdomain"?

Well, I have still not been able to get IBAccess or ISQL to work. Any suggestions.

Sujan