Re: Can't get SQL*Net working on Win95 (ORA-6106)

Mark Weston wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I am at my wits end. Hope someone can help...
>
> I have installed SQL*Net 1.x and 2.x (at various times) on my dual-boot Win95
> machine. In all cases I specified "Microsoft Windows NT 3.1/3.5 TCP/IP" as my
> TCP/IP vendor.
>

Be sure TCP_VENDOR=WINSOCK

> I can ping/telnet the Sun box (so I assume TCP/IP is set up OK) but when I
> try nettest.exe (the Oracle database ping utility), I get an ORA-6106 error.
>
> I have an Oracle document on exactly this error. I am pretty sure my
> oracle.ini and vsl.ini are OK. When I run nettest.exe and look at loaded
> DLLs, I notice that MSOCKLIB.DLL and MWINSOCK.DLL are not being loaded whereas
> ORA7WIN.DLL and COREWIN.DLL are. Is this a problem??
>
> I am most confused by two pieces of documentation I have from Borland and
> Microsoft. Both say that ORANT71.DLL is required to connect to Oracle using
> their respective 32-bit development tools. This makes sense to me -
> ORANT71.DLL looks like a 32-bit version of ORA7WIN.DLL. The problem is that I
> have no ORANT71.DLL in my orawin\bin directory. My orawin\bin looks just like
> the one I have when connecting under Windows 3.1 - no 32-bit DLLs.
>
> Please help!!
>
> Regards,
> MarkW
 

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