Re: net8 config: db_name/service_names conflict?

Patrick,

Thanks for making me look at listener.ora again -- the names were OK, but turned out ORACLE_HOME was misconfigured.

George

In article <92ddq4$mdv$1_at_nnrp1.deja.com>,   buckeye714_at_my-deja.com wrote:
> What name is the listener expecting? Look in the listener.ora file.
> This is the name you should use in the tnsnames.ora file on the
 client.
> This should work if your listener.ora file is correctly configured.
 If
> this doesn't help, please post the contents of listener.ora from the
> server, tnsnames.ora from the client and any error messages you
 receive.
>
> HTH,
> Patrick
>
> In article <92b78b$3g9$1_at_nnrp1.deja.com>,
> gpavlov_at_my-deja.com wrote:
> > I am struggling with an inherited Oracle 8.1.5 (UNIX/Solaris)
 install
> > which has the following strange setup: In initMYINSTANCE.ora the
 db_name
> > and the service_names parameters are the same, looking something
 like
> > this:
> >
> > db_name = NAMESTRING
> > instance_name = MYINSTANCE
> > service_names = NAMESTRING
> >
> > I can connect to the instance locally without trouble. There is
 also a
> > listener running, but I cannot figure out how to configure the
 client
 on
> > a remote machine to connect to this. I have tried seemingly all
> > permutations of the NAMESTRING and the MYINSTANCE strings in the
 Service
> > Identification/Service Name of the Net8 assistant (or directly in
 the
> > tnsnames.ora file).
> >
> > Questions for the experts: is it OK to have db_name = service_names?
 In
> > the setup as described what should one enter to configure a client?
> >
> > George

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