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Bastiaan & Cecile wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I'm pretty sure this is a question you must see coming and coming again,
> but I've looked for the answers in previous posts but couldn't find what
> I needed. Here goes:
>
> I've installed Oracle 8, and when I try to use SQL plus, it asks for a
> login, password, and server. This is what I enter:
>
> Login: Scott
> Password: Tiger
> Server: ODBC:Polite
>
> But it doesn't accept it. The other thing is, at the install, I've
> entered Oracle instead of OraHome81 as the home. Would that make a
> difference?
>
> Thanks in advance for your help,
>
> Cecile.
scott and tiger are probably Ok. But ODBC:Polite is what?
You need to look in the TNSNAMES.ORA file probably located at c:\oracle\ora81\network\admin and see what alias exists for the database instance.
If none ... use the Net8 Admin tool to create one.
Daniel A. Morgan Received on Wed Aug 22 2001 - 12:17:34 CDT