Re: Protocol adapter error

My bad...oracle number was 9.0....I think the problem is that I tried to install various times and I've got conflicts that way. so I've uninstalled and am going to install again this evening. Hopefully that will work. If not I'll be back!!!

CD

"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
>
>
>
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Received on Tue Apr 02 2002 - 14:40:42 CEST