Re: ODBC Connection to Oracle DB from LAN

ODBC runs on top of NET8.
Forget about getting it to work without
a) the net8 software
b) the required support files
(so no sqlplus and other stuff)

Hth,

Sybrand Bakker, Oracle DBA

"JS" <totally_invalid_at_email.address> wrote in message news:398f1c53_at_news.digitalselect.net...
>
> Hello,
>
> I am trying to establish a connection to an Oracle 8i DB (8.1.6 I think)
> running on an NT server on my LAN (TCP/IP). My local machine does not
 have
> the Oracle client on it. I am hoping to make some kind of ODBC connection
> to this DB, but I keep getting TNS resolution errors. I have tried making
> file DSNs on the server, but that didn't help any. The current driver I
 am
> using is Microsoft's ODBC for oracle, version 2.573.4403.00 (it came with
> MDAC 2.5).
>
> Does anyone know if there is a way I can make this connection without
 having
> to install Oracle client/Net8? (i.e.. can I tweak the connection string
 to
> search the network for the server name or feed in an IP address and port
> number?) Finally, what kind of setup will I need to do on the server end
 to
> get it ready to accept the connection? If at all possible, I would prefer
> to do this without DSNs.
>
> I eventually want to write some c++ classes that will use this connection.
> I am shooting to minimize the system req.'s for the users of my classes.
>
> Thanks a billion for the help! Oh, if you think I am asking too much of
> ODBC, please let me know!
>
> Jason
>
>
>
Received on Mon Aug 07 2000 - 00:00:00 CDT