Re: cable modem and ORA-12514

"Martijn Linsen" <Martijn.Linsenremovethis_at_bitsoft-it.nl> wrote in message news:<p2%_a.89143$506.85937_at_typhoon.bart.nl>...
> Hi,
>
> I have a rather strange question:
>
> About e month ago (before i had a cable modem connected to my PC), my
> Oracle Personal Edition 8.1.6 was working just fine. (Windosw XP Pro).
> But since i connected the modem (and established a network), all i get is
> this damn ORA-12514 message when i try to connect. I have checked my
> tnsnames.ora, successfully 'pinged' my PC, successfully 'tnspinged' my
> ORADB1 database, but that's all i can do.
> I know my computers name has changed from 'XPMARTIJN' to 'cp305358-a' since
> i installed the cable modem. When i try to add a service with the Net8
> connection assistant, i am not allowed to create one with the name
> 'ORADB1.cp305358-a' (invalid name), but i am allowed to create one with the
> name ORADB1.XPMARTIJN.
>
> When i checked the status of my Oracle services (3), i found that two of
> them were started, and one was starting.
>
> Could this be my problem? Does anyone have got any idea?
> I'm sorry to bother you all with yet another ora-12514 problem, but i
> haven't got a clue.
>
> Greetings, Martijn

Besides what the others said, did you change from a fixed ip address to dhcp? I was sorta wondering about if this would be a problem for my home pc, until I realized my router-thingie fixes my ip, being the one that takes the dhcp. I'm not running xp at home.

jg

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