Re: Client Connectivity Problem!

What net service name are you trying to connect to from the client? In your ping you are using an IP address. Are you using the IP address as your net service name? I've never seen this done, but I'd guess that it should be possible. If it is possible, I'd guess that you'd have to set up your IP address in your listener.ora as a SID or Service Name, just as if you were using hostnaming, with DNS or some other native name service.

Randall Roberts

Khurram Izhar <KhurramI_at_Ducont.Com> wrote in message news:9e7olv$6sl1_at_news.emirates.net.ae...
> "Attempting to connect using userid: system
>
> The test did not succeed.
>
> ORA-12545: Connect failed because target host or object does not exist
>
> There may be an error in the fields entered,
>
> or the server may not be ready for a connection. "
>
> This is the error message I am getting from the remote 2000 professional
> machine which has installed the client for 8i. The 'tnsping 10.0.0.104'
> gives me this result from the same client machine (where 10.0.0.104 is the
> IP Address of the 8i Server)
>
> "C:\>tnsping 10.0.0.104
>
> TNS Ping Utility for 32-bit Windows: Version 8.1.5.0.0 - Production on
> 20-MAY-01 10:13:12
>
>
>
> (c) Copyright 1997 Oracle Corporation. All rights reserved.
>
> Attempting to contact (ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=TCP)(HOST=10.0.0.104)(PORT=1521))
>
> OK (740 msec)"
>
> From the server itself, I am able to connect to the database through the
> "Net8Config" as well as "SQL*PLus" utilities.
>
> Any clues??
>
> Regards,
>
> Khurram Izhar Siddiqui
>
>
>
Received on Sun May 20 2001 - 19:12:28 CDT