Re: NET8 TCP/IP connection invokes phone dialer--why?

[Quoted] I spoke a little too soon. The technique does work, but it has a strange side effect. If you have an opinion about it, I'd like to hear it.

When I add the server's name and IP address to hosts.sam and lmhosts.sam, and then use Net8 Easy Config to set up an alias, the first Test I do starts the dialer. If I cancel the dialer and Test again, the connection to the server succeeds. Subsequent Tests during that run of Net8 Easy Config also succeed.

In SQL*Plus, when I try to connect the dialer also starts. I cancel it, and the connection succeeds without my having to try it again.

With SQL*Net--the actual target protocol because the client is going to run Developer/2000--the connection works fine.

Any idea how to get rid of that dialer problem?

Thanks again,
Chris

Kevin Martin wrote:
>
> "Christopher Allen" progplus_at_gte.net wrote in <72i01t$5j3$1@news-
> 1.news.gte.net>:
>
> > Greetings, all:
> >
> > I've just finished installing Oracle 8.0.3 server on a small network at
> > a client's site. All tools, including SQL*Plus and Developer/2000, work
> > fine on the server. But when I install the Oracle 8 client on a
> > workstation and run Net8 Easy Config to create a connection to the
> > server, the Test causes the dial-up networking phone dialer to be
> > invoked, and the server connection I desire does not occur.
>
> Probably name service -- is the server in the workstation's hosts and
> lmhosts files? If there's a predefined route, it should use that in
> preference to DUN.
>
> --
> Kevin Martin <brasscannon_at_bigfoot.com>
Received on Sun Nov 15 1998 - 00:42:29 CET