Re: Net8 client connection problem

Here you need to specify the SID as well.

(
ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=TCP)(HOST=192.168.0.3)(PORT=1521) (SID_NAME = "SID")
)

Please look at the example which you should have in your system.

Robert

"Peter Chang" <peterchang_at_telocity.com> wrote in message news:B8j55.8221$sv.1632508_at_newsrump.sjc.telocity.net...
> I have recently installed oracle 8i on an NT server running Wingate proxy
> server. When I tried to initiate a connection from a remote client
 machine,
> I received the following error message:
>
> Attempting to contact

 (ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=TCP)(HOST=192.168.0.3)(PORT=1521))
> TNS-12571: TNS:packet writer failure
>
> I have no problem pinging the server from the client machine. So I
> suspected the problem is related to Wingate proxy server. Anyone knows how
> to get around this problem?
>
>
Received on Sun Jun 25 2000 - 00:00:00 CDT