Re: Installing Oracle on a single Windows Machine

On 22 Jan 2005 13:10:52 -0800, yf110_at_vtn1.victoria.tc.ca (Malcolm Dew-Jones) wrote:

>John F. Regus (jfregus_at_ix.netcom.com) wrote:
>: I have read Oracle Installation Guide for Windows and the part about
>: installing Windows on a single machine.
>
>: In the documentation it states the name of the database (an it uses an
>: example like sales.yourdomain.com)
>
>: If I am installing Oracle on a single Windows XP platform, I don't have a
>: domain. I may be connected to a internet provider but I doubt seriously if
>: I could just create sales.earthlink.com.
>
>It's easy for you to create sales.earthlink.com, or any other name, as
>long as it's for your own use only. Simply edit your HOSTS file and add
>the name with an appropriate ip address. Now when your machine looks up
>that name it will find that address and everything will work just like
>normal.
>
>HOWEVER, I don't know if this helps with your oracle question or not.
>
>On windows, the hosts file has traditionally gone in \WINDOWS, though I
>see it somewhere else on this machine (an XP), so I don't know where it
>belongs. (And I have a funny feeling it might be called HOSTS.TXT
>sometimes on windows, again not sure).

It has been for ages in
%WINNT\systems32\drivers\etc and it is just called hosts

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Sybrand Bakker, Senior Oracle DBA