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Re: Connection problem: ORA-12203 and ORA-12154

From: Kaboel Karso <kaboel_at_wau.mis.ah.nl>
Date: 1998/03/20
Message-ID: <351463ab.105247037@waubel.wau.mis.ah.nl>#1/1

Try to hardcode TNS_ADMIN in the registry to point to the correct directory.

On 20 Mar 1998 11:01:47 GMT, "Steven Cools" <Steven_at_digimap.be> wrote:

>Hi,
>
>a little explanation about my current situation:
>
>Oracle 7.3 is installed on a central server (Netware 4.11 - Windows).
>Several client machine (Windows 95) can succesfully connect to this server
>(for example by using SQL*Plus) but there are problems with 1 client
>machine.
>I get following error message when I try to connect with SQL*Plus (with the
>same parameters as used on the other client machines):
>
>ORA-12203: TNS: Unable to connect to destination
>
>or sometimes:
>
>ORA-12154: TNS: Could not resolve service name
>
>I checked both errors and their (possible) solution and the manual says
>that I
>should check TNSNAMES.ORA but..the other client machines use the same
>TNSNAMES.ORA so that can't be the problem...
>
>Any other suggestions ? If you can please forward them to Steven_at_digimap.be
>
>greetings,
>
>Steven Cools
>
>

Kaboel Karso Received on Fri Mar 20 1998 - 00:00:00 CST

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