Remote Connections over TCP/IP
On UNIX systems, the task of connecting the client and server together was strictly a manual task. The DBA had to manually edit two ASCII files, one of which needed system administrator privileges to modify (/etc/services). The manual editing usually occurred only on the UNIX system, with the GUIs making the setup on Windows machines a little bit more automated. Since most UNIX machines support some type of Windows clients, most DBAs have worked with the GUIs.
In order to understand the relationships between all of the files used for TCP/IP communications, refer to the following diagram.
Files Used in TCP/IP Remote ...
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