Re: From Windows software to Linux Oracle

If you have your sqlnet set up on the windows box (which you have to have in order to use the odbc connection) you just put the tns alias in the server block. In other words run the Oracle client for NT installation on your machine prior to setting up the ODBC driver.

Dale Sides
dsides_at_pciga.com

Antony J. Shepherd wrote in message
<916313578.22286.0.nnrp-01.9e98c0e1_at_news.demon.co.uk>...
>Can anyone tell me how I can connect ODBC drivers on a Windows NT machine
to
>a Linux installation of Oracle?
>
>I've downloaded the ODBC drivers from the Oracle web site, and I also have
>Microsoft's own Oracle drivers.
>
>I think there's something else I need, but I'm not sure what...?
>
>I'd appreciate any advice on this as I know nothing about Linux and Oracle,
>it's just prototyping my company is doing on the cheap prior to taking the
>plunge into some serious server kit.
>
>Thanks in advance
>
>Antony Shepherd
>(dop_at_carcosa.demon.co.uk)
>
>
Received on Thu Jan 14 1999 - 16:49:24 CET