Re: Oracle 8 connectivity problems with Oracle 7 clients

If you are using SqlNet v1 on the 16 bit machines, you are probably out of luck...newer Oracle ( past 7.2 I think) does not support V1 of Sqlnet only V2 or Net80...

"Manuel Mall" <mmnospam_at_arcus.com.au> wrote:

>We have a small network with 3 Windows NT machines. One machine runs Oracle
>7.1 and all machines have the Oracle clients (16 bit), eg. SQL*Plus and
>ODBC, installed. We also have a 16-bit VB application which connects to
>Oracle.
>On a second machine we have just installed Oracle 8i but we cannot "talk" to
>it using the 16 bit clients from any of the workstations even its own. I am
>sure it must be a networking installation / configuration problem. One
>question is: What is the correct CONNECT string for Oracle 8i. For our
>Oracle 7 server in our environment it is something like:
>t:<hostname>:<sid>. But this doesn't appear to work for Oracle 8.
>The basic things like Oracle 8 itself and the listener appear to work, ie.
>on the workstation with Oracle 8 installed, we can use the Oracle 8 version
>of SQL*Plus to connect to the Oracle 8 database by leaving the Host String
>empty. But we are not able to use Oracle 8 SQL*Plus to connect to Oracle 7
>using the t:<hostname>:<sid> string.
>Any suggestions on what we might be doing wrong.
>
>Thanks
>
>Manuel
>

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