Re: Oracle Names - local listner - not view list of databases

On Wed, 10 Mar 2004 19:59:37 GMT, Glen A Stromquist <glen_stromquist_at_no_spam_yahoo.com> wrote:

>Aaapsik wrote:
>
>> Hi
>>
>> I have Oracle 8.1.7 on windows, with Oracle Names Server.
>> Clients is PC with windows nt 4.
>>
>> I run ONS, on clients, I see database (where I put manually name of
>> database),
>> but listners no get list of database from ONS (only from tnsnames).
>> I using PL/SQL Developer to test.
>>
>> I don't where is problem ;-(
>> Do You have any idea?
>>
>>
>to see a list of databases in net8 assistant, which I believe is what
>you mean, then I'm pretty sure you need a tnsnames file, have your names
>server dump to a tnsnames file and either point to it or copy it to your
>local machine
>
>hth

So why would you use Oracle Names?
Listeners don't get a list of databases by means of Oracle Names. Oracle Names is a replacement for tnsnames.ora not for listener.ora

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