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Re: TNS : Name lookup failure - help

From: Matthias Gresz <GreMa_at_t-online.de>
Date: 1997/12/02
Message-ID: <660as3$ki9$1@news01.btx.dtag.de>#1/1

lakshmanan_k_at_yahoo.com wrote:
>
> Hi, I have a 7.2.2 database installed in my Win NT 3.51 server.At present
> there are existing Win 95 clients and they are all connected to the
> server (only runform sessions). The client OS is Win 95 Arabic enabled.
> When I was trying to connect a new machine to the server database, I got
> an error viz., TNS - 12545 : TNS name lookup failure. As a final step, I
> even tried to copy all init files from one working client to the new m/c,
> but in vain. Already there is a reference to the oracle.ini file (which
> is in the server) in the client's win.ini file. TCP/IP protocol is
> installed. Is there anything I missed. Before this, I got some other
> error as 'missing ctl3dv.dll' and I resolved it by copying from another
> client. Now, the runform is activated and the problem is while
> connecting. I have SQL Net 2.2.2....., Oracle NET bios adapter 2.2.2....,
> Oracle TCP/IP adapter 2.2.2....., SQL Net named pipes 1.1.8.1, SQL net
> TCP/IP 1.1.9.0A,......... Can somebody please tell me what I missed. Any
> help would be greatly appreciated.
>
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Regards

Matthias Gresz    :-)
Received on Tue Dec 02 1997 - 00:00:00 CST

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