Re: Help! SQL*Net

>From "Colin Young" <cyoung_at_ceogroup.com>
>Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.misc
>Subject: Help! SQL*Net
>Date: 25 Jan 1997 20:51:36 GMT
 

>I need help installing SQL*Net (at this point I don't care which version).
 

>I'm using Oracle 7.3.2 on Solaris/SPARC 2.5.1 and would like to be able to
>connect Oracle Enterprise Manager from Windows NT 4.0.
 

>I've got as far in the Oracle supplied documentation as 'run Network
>Manager to configure your installation.' I have seen this sentence (or
>variations on it) in the installation documentation, the Oracle DBA
>handbook, other Oracle supplied documentation and various other books. Not
>one of them tells me how to run the Network Manager or gives me any clue as
>to where I might find it. The most specific instruction I have been able to
>find is that I need to configure the network from a Windows machine, but I
>can't connect to the server until it is configured, but I need to connect
>to the server from Windows in order to run some piece of software (which at
>the moment appears to be fictitious) to configure the server to allow me to
>connect to the server.
>Any assistance would be appreciated.

-- 


>Colin Young

>cyoung_at_ceogroup.com

>cayoung_at_cycor.ca


The Network Manager comes as a seperate (free) product. The version I have runs under Windows 3.x.
It basically asks you a number of questions (note it's difficult to understand what it is on about!)
and then it generates 3 files for you namely LISTENER.ORA, TNSNAMES.ORA and SQLNET.ORA
which you then have to FTP to your production machine.

Chances are that that they won't work and you have you construct you own anyway - but
they are a good starting point. I, personally, got better versions/examples off the ORACLE OCIS
Web pages. 

Richard Bentley
Natural Evironment Research Council
Oxfordshire, England.