Strange...? you asked for it! It's called Plug-and-Pray. Solly fol the
plonounciaon ;)
Looks like some network settings were altered, either automaically, or
by yourself. That may have broken the bindings.
What puzzles me is the fact the PL/SQL developer can still connect.
How is that established then - are you referring to the oracle product?
--
Frank
Raymond van Daelen <daelen_at_wxs.nl> schreef in berichtnieuws
39D2604E.3C163D20_at_wxs.nl...
> Hi there,
>
> I've experienced a strange phenomenon. I recently switched from coax
> cables for my network to twisted pair cables. Simply be removing the
> coax and placing twisted pair cables in the proper slots.
> From this moment on net8 was no longer available, and Designer,
> discoverer etc. situated on my windows 98 machine (and also on a NT4
> SP4 machine) could no longer connect to the database. I could not even
> start the net8 assistant to reconfigure. And a new installation (of
> designer and discoverer) on a NT4 machine simply didn't show net8
> functionality! Even though according to oracle installer is is present.
> Starting net8 through ../bin/N8a.exe did not work either (no respons
> whatsoever!)
> The databse (situated on a linux machine) can still be reached using
> PL/SQL developer, so the network connection is functioning! and database
> is up and running).
>
> Has anyone any idea what can be done to restore connectivity between the
> machine using net8?
>
> many thanks
>
> Raymond
Received on Thu Sep 28 2000 - 02:23:39 CDT
