Fellow HP3000-L listners, We are just starting down the C/S path and are proceeding very slowly. Our initial choice for communications was ODBC on the client side. Which requried the ARPA listner services on the HP3000 (MPE/ix 5.0) to be turned on. Following the directions in the HP PC API User's Guide seemed to be quite straight forward until we hit the following error: :anstart arpa (ANUtil): Checking ALLBASE/NET listener status for ARPA. (ANUtil): ERROR -31995 STARTING ALLBASE/NET LISTENER FOR ARPA. From past references on the list it was clear that our problem was related to not finding our HOSTS or SERVICES file in NET.SYS. However, these files were there and hade the correct entries within them. The HP Support Centre suggested that our problem was related to the existance of another file RESLVCNF.NET.SYS which points to the location of our Domain Name Server. They suggested that we remove this file and sure enough we could get the ARPA listner running. The problem was that outgoing TELNET was effected adversely. We could not resolve the names being used to identify the targets of our telnet activity. Our temporary solution was to change the command files ANSTART, ANSTOP, ANSTAT to check for ARPA as an argument and if so then using a file equation temporarily disable the reference to RESLVCNF.NET.SYS as follows: PARM dc_type='',debug='' COMMENT ********************************************************************** COMMENT * COMMENT * @(#)HP36216-02A.G0.19 ALLBASE/NET 900 ALLBASE/SQL <snip> COMMENT * COMMENT ********************************************************************** setvar _dc_type ups('!dc_type') setvar _debug ups('!debug') comment if ( ('!_dc_type' = 'DEBUG') and ('!_debug' = '') ) then setvar _dc_type 'NS' setvar _debug 'DEBUG' else if ('!_dc_type' = '') then setvar _dc_type 'NS' endif endif comment if ( ( ('!_dc_type' <> 'ARPA') and ('!_dc_type' <> 'NETWARE') and & ('!_dc_type' <> 'NS') ) or & ( ('!_debug' <> 'DEBUG') and ('!_debug' <> '') ) ) then echo Usage: anstart [dc_type] [DEBUG] echo dc_type = {ARPA|NS|NETWARE} return endif comment This additional condition was put in by Bob Hilverth comment ===================================================== if ('!_dc_type' = 'ARPA') then echo Disabling RESLVCNF.NET.SYS.... file RESLVCNF.NET.SYS=$NULL endif comment ===================================================== continue anutil.pub.sys "START !_dc_type !_debug" comment This additional condition was put in by Bob Hilverth comment ==================================================== if ('!_dc_type' = 'ARPA') then echo Resetting RESLVCNF.NET.SYS.... reset RESLVCNF.NET.SYS endif comment ==================================================== I feel uncomfortable changing command files that could be overwritten with an update to the operating system. Has anybody got a better solution? TIA \rjh --------------------------------------------------------- Robert Hilverth, I.S.P., Database Administrator Mohawk College of App. Arts & Tech. PO Box 2034, Hamilton, Ontario Canada, L8R 3T2 Tel: 905/575-1212 x3052 Fax: 905/575-2302 or 905/575-2378 Internet: [log in to unmask] ---------------------------------------------------------