Re: TNS: Protocol adapter error

Make sure the environment variable ORACLE_SID is set to the name of the instance you are trying to connect to.

"Chris Dorr" <cdorr_at_bicycle-classifieds.net> wrote in message news:<SaQp8.169217$uA5.142897_at_rwcrnsc51.ops.asp.att.net>...
> Well I finally got oracle installed on the system, however now I can't login
> via SQL plus. Keeps giving me an error of: ORA-12560: TNS: protocol Adapter
> error
>
> I'm trying to connect to a local db on my win2000 system. I had problems
> earlier this weekend with the install stalling on OLAP, but I finally get it
> installed. However when it was going through it's final run through it
> wasn't able to start all of the things it needed to "test" run, so I
> cancelled out of that. This was the apache web server, the db configure
> assistant, etc etc.
>
> I have a feeling that this error has to do with the TNSNAMES.ora (something
> like that) file, but I've no clue as to what to do.
>
> Thanks for the help and hopefully I can pass some on one of these days.
>
> Christian Dorr
> http://www.bicycle-classifieds.net
Received on Tue Apr 02 2002 - 01:23:30 CEST