Turkbear wrote:
> reijo_us_at_yahoo.com (Reijo) wrote:
>
>
>>Has anyone ever used Crystal Reports against an Oracle DB via the internet?
>>
>>Any idea how this might be accomplished if, say, the DB was located in a DMZ?
>>
>>Thank you.
>
> We do have a server set up for thus, but It is not easy to explain in a posting ; if you do a Google search in the oracle
> newsgroups for Firewall - or check the Oracle docs at http://tahiti.oracle.com
>
>
> It involves forcing the listener to use the same port for all communications( and then allowing that port through the
> firewall) rather than the default behavior of assigning a random port after the initial connect is made.
>
> hth,
>
Hmmm - there *are* SQL*Net aware firewalls. The shared socket approach
was broken
for Windows in 8.1.6
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Regards, Frank van Bortel
Received on Tue Nov 18 2003 - 16:00:19 CST
