Determining What Kind of Network You Have

This section explains how to determine the network protocol that you should use with the database engine. If you already know what protocol or protocols are supported on your network, you can skip this section.

Server Engine on Windows

If your network is 100% Microsoft, and you have a database Server engine, then your network probably uses TCP/IP. The Server engine does not support NetBIOS.

You can run applications over SPX on Microsoft networks if the applications use only the Pervasive.SQL transactional interface. The use of ODBC applications over SPX requires a NetWare server for name resolution. If you do not have a NetWare server on your network, you may not use SPX for ODBC applications. (Applications that use the relational interface.)

Server Engine on NetWare

If you have a NetWare network, you must determine whether it is running SPX, TCP/IP, or both. You can find out whether TCP/IP is supported by checking to see if TCPIP.NLM is loaded on the server.

Server Engine on Linux

Linux engines support only TCP/IP.