Re: NT4 - Accessing local TCP/IP db starts up DUN

Almost correct.
That setting you are referring to is in the registry key defaultprovider (If I remember well).
Oracle just uses that same key!

Hth,

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Fred G.Eisenberg <xeisenbrg_at_fast.net> wrote in message news:383589AE.285C_at_fast.net...
> Andy Hardy wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > Sometimes when I start up an application that accesses my local Oracle
> > 7.3 database via TCP/IP the MS Dial-Up Networking box appears and says
> > that it cannot access my machine and asks whether it should dial a
> > remote network.
> >
> > If I say 'No', the application starts as normal and my database is
> > connected.
> >
> > Does this sound like an Oracle/SQL*Net problem or an NT problem?
> >
> > Either way, what is the fix?
> >
> > Andy
> > P.S Running NT4 SP5, same problem existed under SP3
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> A simialr thing can happen using IE to access the internet. There is a
> setting in IE on how to connect to the internet (local network, modem,
> etc). I would suspect that there is a similar setting in the
> Oracle/SQL*Net so that it is looking for the connection over the modem.
> When you say "no", all is OK because the LAN is there and working. Look
> around within the settings of the Oracle Client for something along
> these lines.
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Received on Fri Nov 19 1999 - 13:02:08 CST