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> > I have been running Oracle 7.3 on NT ver 4 environment. I would like to
> > store tnsnames.ora file on the server and then make it available to all
> > clients. Do I have to go in the registry and create the environment
> > variable to do that, or is there another way ?
If you put a key in the registry under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software/Oracle
call TNS_ADMIN and use to point to the network directory containing
tnsnames.ora and sqlnet.ora it works fine. For example:
TNS_ADMIN=G:\ORANT\NETWORK\ADMIN
Received on Fri Jun 13 1997 - 00:00:00 CDT