Re: NT 4.0; 16-bit sql*net

I misspoke - with NT4.x only the 2.3 or later SqlNet will work - 3.5x works ok with others --- I have installed 2.3 in NT4.0 and it works fine -

TurkBear

Arto Kujala <Arto.Kujala_at_vtt.fi> wrote:

>TurkBear wrote:
>>
>> As far as I can tell, only the 2.3 or later will work on a NT client
>> and I'm not sure there is a 16-bit version....
>
>I have used sqlnet 2.1 (16-bit) in win nt 3.51 clients. Is it possible
>to install v2.1 in NT 4.0? I gave up after 3 hours of trying.
>
>
>> PS
>> v2 connects are always slower than v1; Oracle says its because it has
>> more options to process ( read tnsnames, check for nameserver, etc )
>> but since v1 is no longer supported on the server side for version 7.3
>> or later DBs I guess we'll have to live with it.
>>
>
>I have been running 2.1 in NT 3.51. Yes, it is a bit slower than v1 (NT
>4 or 3.51), but this 2.3 in NT 4.0 is about ten times slower than 2.1 in
>NT 3.51. And the worst thing is that 2.3 hangs every 30 minutes.
>
>I just heard that you can not use sqlnet version higher in clients than
>your server has; there is now v2.1 in server and I tried v2.3 in client.
>Is this true?
>
>--Arto Kujala, arto.kujala_at_vtt.fi
Received on Thu Jun 19 1997 - 00:00:00 CDT