Re: WebDB Fails to install or run on NT

I strongly discourage you to use SP5. Try use SP4 instead. You'll have to wipe clean the whole system to do that, though. But that's not a bad thing - nothing helps better that a clean install :)

HTH Alex

david rawle <david.rawle_at_channel-a.com> wrote in message news:3826CA2F.19BF9296_at_channel-a.com...
> We have installed Oracle 8i 8.1.5 on a brand new machine under Win NT
> 4.0 (SP5) using Microsoft IIS 4 web server.
>
> All was well until we tried to install WebDB.
>
> After WebDB install (on port 8000), our IIS server on port 80 was
> taken over and stopped. We moved IIS to another port and restarted
> it. Oracle 8i now cannot be reached by the web server or Net8 and
> webdb does not run at all.
>
> On trying to connect to webdb we get the error:
>
> Database Log In Failed
>
> TNS is unable to connect to destination. Invalid TNS address supplied
> or destination is not listening. This error can also occur because of
> underlying network
> transport problems.
>
> Verify that the TNS name in the connectstring entry of the DAD for
> this URL is valid and the database listener is running.
>
> I am pretty sure that there is nothing wrong with TCP/IP as nothing
> else on our system is broken.
>
> Oracle Tech Support have verified that our TNS entries are correct. (I
> think they have now run out of ideas as they started asking us to make
> sure the case of our webDB password was correct!)
>
> Anyone else had a problem like this? Did you manage to find a
> workaround?
>
> We have has 2 of us on this for 2 weeks and we are no closer to
> installing Oracle 8i or WebDB and we have a big demo to the client on
> Wednesday to prove that Oracle 8i will satifactorily serve up their
> new
> e-commerce web site.
>
> Thanks
>
> - David
>
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Received on Tue Nov 16 1999 - 19:07:42 CST