Chances are, you installed Designer on another Oracle_Home (which is the
right thing to do anyway). You need to copy tnsnames.ora/sqlnet.ora from
your Oracle 8.1.7 Oracle_Home to the appropriate directory in your Designer
6 Oracle_Home.
"Dooban" <doobas_at_terra.com> wrote in message
news:b12e10b3.0111011218.467003dd_at_posting.google.com...
> I have installed Oracle EE 8i 1.7 and Designer 6i rel 3, in that
> order.
>
> I have created a TNS_ADMIN key in HKLM-Software-Oracle pointing to
> C:\ORACLE\ORA81\NETWORK\ADMIN.
>
> I have deleted the TNSNAMES.ORA, AND SQLNET.ORA so that there would be
> no conflicts from C:\ORACLE\DEV6i\NET80\ADMIN.
>
> After that I am able to connect with SQLPLUSW with scott/tiger_at_ORCL.
> Just in case it didn´t work I have connected from the SQLPLUSW.exe
> located in:
> C:\ORACLE\ORA81\BIN
> C:\ORACLE\DEV6i\BIN
> C:\ORACLE\des_817\BIN
> In every case I was able to succesfully connect using
> scott/tiger_at_ORCL.
>
> I have also installed Developer 6i rel3 and been able to log using the
> ORCL instance.
>
> The problem arises when trying to launch DESIGNER. When I log using
> the same connection string the following error appears:
>
> ORA-12203: TNS:unable to connect to destination
> RME-00220: Failed to connect to Repository
> I have not yet created the repository, so the second error is ok but
> not the first one.
>
> When issuing a TNSPING ORCL I get a TNS-12541:no listener error. The
> listener IS started !
>
> This is the output of the LSNRCTL status:
>
> C:\>lsnrctl status
>
> LSNRCTL for 32-bit Windows: Version 8.1.7.0.0 - Production on
> 01-NOV-2001 21:16:44
>
> (c) Copyright 1998 Oracle Corporation. All rights reserved.
>
> Conectßndose a
(DESCRIPTION=(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=TCP)(HOST=127.0.0.1)(PORT=1521)))
> ESTADO del LISTENER
> ------------------------
> Alias LISTENER
> Versi¾n TNSLSNR for 32-bit Windows: Version
> 8.1.7.0.0 - Production
> Fecha de Inicio 01-NOV-2001 20:56:45
> Tiempo de actividad 0 dÝas 0 hr. 20 min. 1 seg.
> Nivel de Rastreo off
> Seguridad OFF
> SNMP OFF
> Fichero de Parßmetros del Listener
> C:\oracle\ora81\network\admin\listener.ora
> Fichero Log del Listener C:\oracle\ora81\network\log\listener.log
> Resumen de servicios...
> orcl tiene 1 gestor(es) de servicio
> El comando se ha ejecutado correctamente
>
> Sorry for the language.
>
> Pleeease help.
>
> Thanks.
Received on Thu Nov 01 2001 - 17:34:55 CST
