Oracle ODBC connection problem

Hello,

I am going nuts. I am trying to connect to my local ORACLE instance using ODBC.
It used to work few weeks ago, but it fails now.

Connection with:
- SQL*plus: connection works!

• DataDirect 5.0 Oracle Wire protocol (3rd party ODBC driver): connection works when I hit the driver's "test connection" but not anymore in real case scenario (using th DSN from an application).
• Oracle ODBC driver 9.02.00.05: connection does not work when I hit the driver's "test connection", I get: Unable to connect SQLState=IM004 [Microsoft][ODBC Driver Manager] Driver's SQLAllocHandle on SQL_HANDLE_ENV failed
• Microsoft ODBC for Oracle 2.575.1022.00: cannot even configure the ODBC data source, always get: The Oracle(tm) client and networking components were not found. These components are sypplied by Oracle Corporation and are part of the Oracle Version 7.3 (or greater) client software installation. You will be unable to use this driver until these components have been installed.

I am running Oracle version 9.2.0.1.0 on an xp Home Computer SP1 FAT32, and trying to use ODBC on the same computer. I installed the Oracle client version 9.2.0.5 to solve the problem but it did not work. I searched the newsgroup for the error messages but could not find any solution solving my problem - I do not think it is a permission problem on a registry or on a file system directory. I also installed the latest MDAC with no success.

This used to work but does not anymore!! I do not know how/when/why it got corrupted. Does anyone have any clue on what could be going on here?

Thanks in advance for your help,

Regards,

SerGioGio Received on Tue Sep 21 2004 - 01:29:25 CDT