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Re: ORA-12560 ERROR, WINME (please help !!!)

From: inluvwitiou <inluvwitiou_at_yahoo.fr>
Date: 3 Oct 2001 11:51:49 -0700
Message-ID: <eb7ae965.0110031051.354ea464@posting.google.com>


Hi Sybrand,

Well i feel a little bit ... stupid !? I mean, yes you are totally right concerning your reply.

Why did i install it twice ? Well, i want to develop an application which is supposed to run on WinMe at the end and wished to use PL/SQL to write my store procedures, this is why i needed an oracle db.

But i see that it won't be possible, so...

Anyway, thank you very much for your help.

postbus_at_sybrandb.demon.nl (Sybrand Bakker) wrote in message news:<a20d28ee.0110030332.49720873_at_posting.google.com>...
> inluvwitiou_at_yahoo.fr (inluvwitiou) wrote in message news:<eb7ae965.0110022147.5a2643b8_at_posting.google.com>...
> > Hi everybody,
> >
> > First of all, apologises to raise up this problem which seems to be a
> > very "old classic" in oracle world, but myself i rather have
> > knowledges under SQl Server. Even though i saw lots of posts about it,
> > i didn't find a solution that really matched my problem (everybody who
> > posted a message around this, said that...).
> >
> > Well anyway, here is my configuration. I've got on a laptop two
> > partitions, one with win2k, the second with winMe. I work in local
> > but have got a network card for internet connections only.
> >
> > I installed Ora817 Enter. edition on win2k and it worked perfectly the
> > first time with standard inst. But with winMe, i'm not able actually
> > to make it run properly and receive this ora-12560 error protocol
> > adapter each time i want to connect with SQL plus. I was first
> > suprised that during the installation, on "choose installation type",
> > the menu is totally different as on win2k. There was simply no
> > "Enterprise edition" option but "Administrator", "progammer" or
> > "client". I chose to run "programer installation".
> >
> > During inst. , I cancelled the network configuration and did it
> > manually with NEt8 assistant. I also created there a really simple
> > service name with the name of my machine as the host, tcp as protocol.
> > Did the same for the listener and created a database, under database
> > services.
> >
> > I think that the listener doesn't even start, so first question, how
> > to start the listener under winMe ? Because if i run the standard
> > commands under DOs, it doens't recognize it as commands !
> >
> > Thanks in advance for those who will spend some time to help me.
>
>
> Let me guess.
> You have the Enterprise Edition for Win2k and you have installed it on
> *both* Win2k and WinMe, without any access to the documentation.
> I'm not sure why you event want to install it two times on one
> machine, but anyway: There isn't any product of Oracle certified for
> WinMe, and you can't because of the ancestry of Win2k expect Win2k
> software to run on WinMe.
> Win9x software runs on Win NT, not the other way around.
> win95->win98->winMe
> win nt ->win2k
> Two completely different productlines.
> Secondly, if you have a database under win2k (which would be normal),
> the winMe install should function as an ordinary client.
> This means, as defined in the documentation: *NO* listener!
> You only need to configure tnsnames.ora and sqlnet.ora and of course
> you can just as well copy it from one directory to another.
> IIRC however, getting 12560 is a typical symptom for running the
> Oracle winnt implementation on win9x, so personally I would just
> forget about running Oracle on WinMe (you would need Personal Oracle
> 8i for win 98, and a hack to get it working), as you already have it
> running on Win2k
>
> Having knowledge of Sqlserver doesn't mean anything in the Oracle
> world, it is rather a disadvantage, as almost everyone exposed to
> sqlserver thinks Oracle works the same way as sqlserver, so they don't
> need to read manuals, and they can just hack away. That is, as you
> already experienced, a *BIG* mistake.
>
> Regards,
>
> Sybrand Bakker, Senior Oracle DBA
Received on Wed Oct 03 2001 - 13:51:49 CDT

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