Re: Oracle client configuration

Hi Kev,

You should be able to install the client software only. The minimum setup is sqlplus and net8, and maybe the ODBC driver and Oracle Objects for Ole.
The listener should be running on the system the database is on. You don't need a nameserver, especially not if you have only 1 database. That is overkill.
You will need on your server
sqlnet.ora
tnsnames.ora
listener.ora
on the client
sqlnet.ora
tnsnames.ora
in %ORACLE_HOME/network/admin

Hth,

Sybrand Bakker, Oracle DBA

TwoSheds wrote in message <7i0vnv$2cmu$1_at_quince.news.easynet.net>...
>I've got Oracle 8 running on my NT4 Workstation, but I want to be able to
>log on to the database from other machines on our network.
>
>I realise this will involve setting up and configuring Net8 and Names
>Servers and Listeners, using host name addressing, and configuring these on
>the server to listen for incoming connection requests.
>
>I have read lots of documentation (that came with O8), but am still unsure
>about what software I need to run on the client side, ie the machine I want
>to be able to log in from. Could someone tell me please what software needs
>to be run on the remote machine, and any thing else that needs to be
>configured. For example, do I also need to run a Names Server on the remote
>machine? Do I need to install Oracle on the remote machine?
>
>thanks in advance,
>
>Kev
>
>
Received on Thu May 20 1999 - 10:22:02 CDT