Re: Oracle services won't start

Subject: Re: Oracle services won't start Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.misc
References: <6g0dgk$ps2$1_at_news.fas.harvard.edu> <3524C9A4.8F078C18_at_bitoek.uni-bayreuth.de> Organization: Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts Distribution:
: Which listener does not start on the server or on the client? If client
: you need none!If server you have a server problem!
: I asume first. You could check the orant/network/admin/tnsnames.ora
: file. It should contain the same
: entries (connectstrings and connect data) as the tnsnames.ora file in
: orawin/network/admin.

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: You must have orant/bin in your path and the Registry for
: LocalMachine/Software/Oracle/ must point to the right directories.
: But this is done through setup and works fine normally (at least if you
: were Administrator during setup).

All this stuff is set up properly. But I guess I shouldn't even have the TNSListener service, if I'm just running client. What services should I look for, if any, to ensure that Oracle client is installed properly?

-Shenkiat Lim
 lim3_at_fas.harvard.edu Received on Tue Apr 07 1998 - 00:00:00 CDT