Re: Conflicts between Oracle 8 TNS listener and NT SP4?

From: Peter Sharman <psharman_at_us.oracle.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 12:48:43 -0800
Message-ID: <36E6DAAB.5C9C9427@us.oracle.com>

Kirk

From memory, there was a patch for the listener with SP4. Check with Support. The other possibility is you're trying to go through a firewall and that's causing problems.

HTH. Pete

kirktrue_at_my-dejanews.com wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Please pardon my ignorance regarding Oracle in general, I'm a newbie.
>
> I just purchased a new NT box and successfully installed both service pack 4
> (to fix a problem with Windows not seeing all of my 12.9 GB drive) and Oracle
> 8. I am able to talk to Oracle from a Java application (using the thin JDBC
> driver) at work, but not from home. The main difference I see is that at home
> I've installed SP4. The problem I'm having is that the TNS listener service
> isn't starting at system boot, and can't be started manually. Therefore my
> application cannot connect to Oracle anymore from my computer at home.
>
> I've seen a posting talking about Oracle's application server having problems
> with SP4, but no mention of any other Oracle components with conflicts.
>
> Thanks,
> Kirk
>
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Regards

Pete

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