Re: 10g on XP Pro with dynamic IP

Thanks all for your help but I have found the solution as stated in the 10g installation guide : http://download-west.oracle.com/docs/html/B10130_02/reqs.htm#BABBDGBI

I will give this a go

"Martin Eysackers" <eysackers.martin_at_pandora.be> wrote in message news:oFJde.80033$Bk7.5144693_at_phobos.telenet-ops.be...
> Hi all,
>
> I recently did a 10g installation on my PC and encountered some problems
> During installation I got the following error message :
> "Thrown when the IP address of a host cannot be determined"
>
> this is because my PC has a dynamic IP address
> I solved this by using a static IP address and reinstalling 10g
> I then changed tnsnames.ora and listener.ora to use host=127.0.0.1
>
> everything works fine
> I can go to http://<computername:5500/em or http://localhost:5500/em, both
> work fine
>
> but when I chage my IP address back to dynamic (so I can surf again)
> neither URL still works
> nor can I connect to the database
> I get :
> ORA-12514 : TNS:listener does not currently know of service requested in
> connect descriptor
>
> Is there a solution for this ?
> I now change my IP address back to static (192.168.0.2) and reboot after
> which everything
> from Oracle works fine (but of course I can no longer surf the net)
>
> thanks for your help
>
>
>
Received on Thu May 05 2005 - 08:05:57 CDT