Beginner's question concerning WebDB

Hello,

I would appreciate if anybody could give me a hint concerning the following problem:
I am new to Oracle and have installed Oracle8i on an NT server. This appears to have
been successful, and now I try to run WebDB against that database, in my case by
specifying the URL

http://inetserver:80/WebDB/

in my browser. However this keeps resulting in an error message telling me that the
'TNS could not resolve service name', and suggests that I check the TNS
entry
under the DAD. The TNS listener is running.

Under Oracle8i, WebDB has to be installed under a diferent home than the database.
I put it under C:\Oracle\Ora81r, whereas the database is under C:\Oracle\Ora81
I understand that the tnsnames.ora file under the C:\Oracle\Ora81r\.. installation
has to be updated, and the therein specified TNS alias specified under the DAD page
(by going to http://inetserver:80/admin_/gateway.htm, which works but does not help).
I simply copied the tnsnames.ora file that already existed under the database-home
to the correct place in the WebDB installation, and specified the TNS entry that mentions my SID.

Could someone send me a copy of a tnsnames.ora file that works under the WebDB installation?
Is there any way for me to se more exactly what is going wrong? I have searched the web for
more hints, but have not been too successful; any suggestions of webpages?

Also, could the error message have to do with the fact, that my server is not yet
connected to the net? Has the DNS to be running? Should I specify
'127.0.0.1' instead of

the hostname 'inetserver' in the tnsnames entry for the time being, or do I have to have an
external name-server connection?

Thanks for any suggestions,

Helmuth Kristen
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Received on Tue Aug 03 1999 - 13:22:44 CDT