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Smiley wrote:
>"kotsos" <fakidomitis_at_yahoo.gr> wrote in message news:newscache$amrpnh$j5o$1_at_ithaca.tee.gr...
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>>Hi ,
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>>I'm quite new to the world of Oracle. The problem I have is that:
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>>I have installed oracle 8i on windows 2000 and everything works fine. Then,
>>I installed oracle forms 6i but the problem is that when i try to run sql+
>>from 6i Oracle error 12203. Trying to connect through sql+ from 8i is ok.
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>>I have uninstalled everything (incl registry etc.) and I installed first
>>oracle forms 6i and then 8i. The same problem persists.
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>>To give you some more hints:
>>1. Oracle forms creates a menu called Oracle for Windows nt. Since I have
>>Windows 2000, is that the problem?
>>2. When I try to run ORacle Net8 Asistant within Oracle Forms 6i, a message
>>appears for less than a second ( i don't know what's in it) and then nothing
>>happens.
>>3. All services are up and running, except Oracle Client Cache 80, which
>>insists not to run (even manually)!
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>>Any ideas?
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>Just create a new key called TNS_ADMIN in your Oracle Dev 6i home (if you installed Forms 6i first
>then this will be HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ORACLE).
>This new key should refer to your tnsnames.ora in the Oracle 8i home. If you installed 8i in
>D:\Oradb8i, your TNS_ADMIN should read: D:\Oradb8i\network\admin
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>Hth,
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>Ron
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If that doesn't solve the problem ... then go to
http://tahiti.oracle.com and search for "Multiple Homes".
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