Re: SQLNet 2.3 & Network Drive

You can also look into the Oracle Names option. We use it and it works great (even across the Atlantic).

Amit
Oracle DBA/Unix SA

Chris Hamilton wrote:

> Sam wrote in message <34BAF21B.D0A_at_megsinet.com>...
>
> >I've always put my tnsnames.ora and sqlnet.ora files on
> >a network drive instead of on each client. Now we are
> >installing SQLNet 2.3.3 and Oracle tells us they don't
> >support this practice - that these files should be
> >local to each client.
>
> They may not "officially" support it, but that's certainly a 100% viable
> solution. I used to do the same thing on a NetWare LAN.
>
> There's lots of things that work quite well that Oracle says "don't do" for
> the reason that they don't want to deal with it if you run into a problem.
> Hand-edited tnsnames files are another. As long as you're careful with the
> syntax and parentheses and such, they work fine, Oracle knows it, they
> probably do it themselves internally!
>
> Chris
Received on Thu Jan 15 1998 - 00:00:00 CST