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Yes, the DNS entry is the point.
Since I am running Oracle on my home PC, I didn't name it. Is there any
way to avoid using DNS entry to make my OEM work?
Thanks again!
Tina
Niall Litchfield (niall.litchfield_at_dial.pipex.com) wrote:
: "Tong Li" <tongli_at_unagi.cis.upenn.edu> wrote in message
: news:ak0qpv$mje$2_at_netnews.upenn.edu...
: >
: > Hello there,
: > I'm using Oracle 9.2 on Windows 2000. I could't access my database from
: OEM
: > with
: > standalone mode. When I tried to expend the database tree as sysdba, I
: > encountered ORA-12545:Connect failed because target host or object does
: not
: > exit.
: This means the DNS entry for the db machine does not exist.
: > But I had no trouble to access my DB from sqlplus command line.
: This means you *do* have a valid tnsnames entry for sqlplus.
: Perhaps you have two Oracle homes and the sqlplus you are running is a
: different version using a different tnsnames.ora from the 9.2 home? What
: does the banner say for sqlplus.
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Received on Wed Aug 21 2002 - 16:14:34 CDT