Re: tnsnames stupid question

i have a quick question: did it show you the details of your tnsping? eg, if you said -

TNSPING MYDATABASE did it come back with

attempting to connect .... < port ... community ... etc.... >

that matched your entry? the error you are describing may really be an error at the listener, not the client...

is your listener using names or is it using an IP address? is the listener up? can you connect to another database??

verify the tnsnames location on your client... oracle home\network\admin (or net80/admin)

good luck,
brent

>I have tried tnsping <host> and if the host is in the
>/etc/hosts file- it comes back saying that TNS-12541 -No
>listener.
>
>It does not appear to use the tnsnames.ora file. Is there
>some parameter i have failed to set up- to specify this?
>
>Please help- i am a bit stumped and the oracle
>documentation is of no use to man or beast.
>
>
>
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Received on Fri Jul 23 1999 - 14:17:41 CDT