"No Listener" error

From: <cupojoe_at_telusplanet.net>
Date: Wed, 17 Nov 1999 17:41:17 GMT
Message-ID: <3832f33f.10884093@news.telusplanet.net>

Hi,
We have a Oracle 8i server set up successfully on an IBM Netfinity Box running NT 4 Server. The listener is running and apparently working. However, I cannot set up a Net 8 connection from my home machine to the Oracle database. I get the following error:

ORA-12541:TNS: no listener

I am setting up my connection identical to my buddy's connection who has tested successfully:

through a dialup connection with a standard ISP
connecting thru a proxy server. dialed in thru the windows 2000 servers, then booted laptop. It was assigned a private ip address from the server but could access the internet through the 2000 server and successfully connect to the oracle server.

The particulars of my machine are:
NT 4.0 workstation connected to the internet through an ADSL connection. I am trying to connect to the Oracle server through TCP/IP connection.

This is the complete message from testing the connection

Initializing first test to use userid: scott, password: tiger Attempting to connect using userid: scott The test did not succeed.
ORA-12541: TNS:no listener

There may be an error in the fields entered, or the server may not be ready for a connection.

Thanks in advance.

cheers
mike Received on Wed Nov 17 1999 - 11:41:17 CST