Re: FW: Allowing user to connect to a database?

Thanks again for your help.  I think that the picture is getting clearer
in my mind.

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Subject: Re: FW: [GENERAL] Allowing user to connect to a database?



On 19/06/2003 14:04 Carlos Oliva wrote:
> Hi Paul,
> This worked very well.  Perhaps, you can help me with another
> question: If I write an aaa bbb ccc of 200.200.200.0, do all clientes
> with IP addresses between 0.0.0.0 and 200.200.200.0 can connect?
>

No. The client ips would have to be in the range 200.200.200.1 to
200.200.200.254. The rules for sub-nets and sub-net masks can be a bit
confusing and I've yet to find a tutorial on-line which is easy to
follow.
It might help you to think of 200.200.200.0 as 200.200.200.*.

HTH

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