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Never mind and sorry to have bothered you guys - problem was a non-existent right paren - it only took re-reading the tnsnames.ora 10 or so times before I realized what I was seeing.
Thanks for all the help, though...
Harry
"Harry Boswell" <staryeti_at_bellsouth.net> wrote in message
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> "Sybrand Bakker" <postbus_at_sybrandb.demon.nl> wrote in message
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> > "Harry Boswell" <staryeti_at_bellsouth.net> wrote in message
> > news:97275eac.0106250857.38b9419_at_posting.google.com...
> > > I've got two Solaris servers running Oracle8 dbs; WinNT and
> > > Win98 clients using Net80 to access the servers. All are working
> > > fine going from Win clients to either server. But if I try to
> > > connect from one server to another, using a database link
> > > or just sqlplus llll/pppp_at_other_server, I get "cannot resolve
> > > service name" errors. Do I need to do something more to get
> > > outgoing SQL*net running on the servers?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Harry Boswell
> >
> >
> > The other_server service definition needs to be in the tnsnames.ora of
the
> > server hosting the database. Database links are server to server comms.
> >
>
> It's there. And I can connect using that definition from the Win clients,
> just not
> from the other server. That's why I wondered if there was any further
> Net80 definition that had to occur on a server to allow it to also be a
> client.
>
> Thanks,
> Harry
>
>
Received on Mon Jun 25 2001 - 14:52:01 CDT