Re: HEEELP! TNS 12541 (no listener): Oracle, Hardware Firewalls & company!

RedEagle wrote:
>
> I opened some ports on the firewall, so that (for instance) the port
> 1521, 5500, and 3389 are redirected to 192.168.0.1
>
> I installed the Oracle 10g on our server (Windows 2000 Server), and
> the web oracle enterprise manager works fine (i can reach it at
> "http://X.Y.Z.K:5500/em").
>
> I have another computer, my computer, veeery far away from the server.
> My computer is on another lan (not the webfarm LAN of course), and its
> ip address is 192.168.10.1
>
> I have a DSL connection, NAT-tted, so NO ports are redirected to my
> computer, okay?
>

Since you are using windows, try:

USE_SHARED_SOCKET = TRUE in your server regedit
(\\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ORACLE\HOME[something]).

(Read even metalink note #90707.1)

Regards

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Fabrizio Magni

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