Re: please help oracle idiot.....listener?......service naming?.......eh?

Unless you are tied to this configuration, join Oracle Technet:

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Install Oracle 8i on a NT or 2000 machine and use this in place of the personal edition. It is not worth the bother to work with the personal edition. If you can, 9i is certified for XP.

Oracle EE has the database assistant that will build a database for you mindlessly, which is perfect for proof of concept or prototyping.

Good Luck!

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High Performance Database Engineering
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"Alex Wellard" <alex_at_seamless-marketing.co.uk> wrote in message
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> Hi there

>

> Thanks for reading this message. This may be idiotic or not....but I'll

ask


> all the same. (I'm pretty desperate!)

>

> I'm trying to set up Oracle 8i Personal Edition on my Win98 machine. I

have


> PWS installed to test ASP. I've gone through the installation process and

> created a new database etc. My problem arrives when I start configuring

the


> listener and service name. When I test the service name all I get is

> "ORA-12541: TNS:no listener".....

>

> For the Service Naming:

> name = same as my global database name

> connection type = database default

> address protocol = TCP/IP

> host name = Computer Name (as set up in Start>Control

> Panel>Network>Identification)

> port no. = 1521

>

> For the Listener:

> host name = same as above

> port no. = same as above

>

> Is this what I'm supposed to do?...I assume that the values for host name

> and port no. should be identical. I've tried changing the userId etc., set

> up a DSN....

>

> Any help, or direction to relevant material on the web would be hugely

> appreciated....I'll just keep banging my head against the screen until

then.


>

> Cheers

>

> Al

>

>

>