Re: Help TOAD with net2.x vs net8

From: Donna Gearing <donna.gearing_at_hydro.on.ca>
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1998 08:06:49 -0400
Message-ID: <707cjd$gn2$1_at_usenet.Hydro.ON.CA>


Get the latest version of Toad. On the login screen there is a check box that allows you to force use of SQL*Net and not Net8. This should solve your problem.

zak tsamoulos wrote in message <7072id$be6$1_at_ulysses.noc.ntua.gr>...
>I installed Des 2k ver 2.1 on a client. By default Oracle Net 8 client and
>SQL net client 2 have been installed too. I then update the tnsnames.ora
>files (manualy or via the config programs) found under
>
>drive:\oracle_home\network\admin and
>drive:\oracle_home\net80\admin
>respectively.
>
>Toad for some reason does not use the
>\oracle_home\network\admin\tnsnames.ora with the aliases that i declared. I
>can connect to a server with oracle 7 with sql plus 3.3 and to a server
with
>oracle 8 with sql plus 8 but not with Toad. When i update the
>\oracle_home\net80\admin\tnsnames.ora with the aliases Toad connects to
both
>servers but does not function properly with the oracle 7 database alias.
>
>Could somebody please propose what is going wrong.
>Thanks in advance,
>zak tsamoulos.
>
>
Received on Fri Oct 16 1998 - 14:06:49 CEST

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