Re: 10g on Win32

Just installed 10g on WinXp, i can't connect to an 8.1.7.3 database, but can connect to an 8.1.7.4 database.
OEM is not running.
Larry Elkins wrote:

>Win2K Pro, 8i R3, 9iR1, 9ir2, and 10g.
>
>I've been struggling with some of these issues, and have things working.
>When I installed, 9.2 listener was running and TNS_ADMIN was pointing to the
>9.2 network\admin directory. Here I was manually tweaking listener.ora and
>tnsnames.ora in the 10g network\admin directory. After setting TNS_ADMIN to
>the 10G directory, everything is fine. I use IPC for everything, and with
>the 10G listener I can connect to all 4 versions of the databases. But, I
>can't connect to 8.1.7.0.0 using the 10G version of SQL*Plus -- I get the
>error message you refer to. I think I remember someone saying that it could
>connect to the latest release of 8.1.7.
>
>Trickier was OEM. In the emoms.properties file was a connect string, fully
>qualifying everything -- e.g.
>"oracle.sysman.eml.mntr.emdRepConnectDescriptor=(DESCRIPTION\=(ADDRESS_LIST\
>=(ADDRESS\=(PROTOCOL\=TCP)(HOST\=LARRY)(PORT\=1521)))(CONNECT_DATA\=(SERVICE
>_NAME \=O10G)))". I finally just yanked it out altogether. One issue that
>I'm working on is that with the listener.ora and tnsnames.ora only
>specifying IPC I could not connect through OEM (I tweaked the connect string
>above to an IPC type of connect, as well as numerous changes in the
>listener.ora and tnsnames.ora files, no luck). I had to go ahead and
>configure a TCP/IP listener location, and create a tcp/ip entry in addition
>to the IPC entry in the tnsnames.ora file. In fact, I had a draft email
>ready to send asking if anyone knows if you have to have a tcp/ip based
>entries to use OEM. That's the only way I've been able to get it to work.
>And I was up all night working on it. I'm still going through other
>configuration files, docs, etc to try to get the answer.
>
>Regards,
>
>Larry G. Elkins
>elkinsl_at_flash.net
>214.954.1781
>-----Original Message-----
>From: oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org [mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org]On
>Behalf Of Justin Cave (DDBC)
>Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2004 12:35 PM
>To: oracle-l_at_freelists.org
>Subject: RE: 10g on Win32
>
>
>The lack of an entry in the Oracle Home Selector is certainly an issue.
>
>On both the systems I installed, the new 10g Enterprise Manager complains
>that the "database status is unavailable", so EM won't allow me to do
>anything other than start & stop the database. The 10g listener also seems
>to have problems with the 8.1.7 and/or 9.2 databases on my development
>system, though I haven't spent a lot of time dealing with this particular
>issue.
>
>I also noticed that if I tried to connect to an 8.1.7 system from a 10g
>client, it complains about an unsupported connection type-- I believe it's
>the same error you get if you try to connect a 9.2 client to an Oracle 7
>system. I thought that 10g -> 8.1.7 was supported, though.
>
>Justin Cave
>Distributed Database Consulting, Inc.
>http://www.ddbcinc.com/askDDBC
>
>
>
>
>
>From: oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org [mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org]
>On Behalf Of Jared.Still_at_radisys.com
>Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2004 11:04 AM
>To: oracle-l_at_freelists.org
>Subject: 10g on Win32
>
>
>
>Just wondering what others experiences are installing this version.
>
>Did you perhaps find that there is no new version of the Oracle Home
>Selector?
>
>And that even if you hack the registry so that the old OHS can find the new
>Oracle 10g registry entries, it still does not set the PATH correctly?
>
>There are at least 2 OH path entries now for 10g. The standard OH/bin and
>now the OH/jre/bin. OHS does not correctly alter the PATH by moving both
>entries to the front of the list.
>
>I say 'at least two' because during installation it occurred that the PATH
>on
>my laptop would exceed 1023 characters and I chose to ignore the error.
>
>Perhaps a re-install would fix this.
>
>sigh... silly me. I thought the days of worrying about PATH size were
>over.
>
>Jared
>
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