Re: SQL*Net compatibility issue - pl. help

Go to http://www.oracle.com/products and you may be able to download another trial version; otherwise in the Free Software section you may find an ODBC driver that works.

Another thing you may try is setting up an SQL*Net alias using SQL*Net Easy Configuration and simply give the IP address of the NT server with the Oracle Database. Use SQL*Plus to test your connection and put the alias as the Connect string. It works fine. I can log on to my company's Oracle Server from my home using an alias I created with SQL*Net that came with Personal Oracle. No ODBC Driver is necessary. I can even do it with a VB front end with an Oracle Data Control - again no ODBC.

If you are referring to connecting from another computer in the same network, then SQL*Net should be fine unless you absolutely need ODBC for some other front end like VB. Then try downloading as I suggested above.

Good luck!
JohnL

>JEP wrote I have thus far have been unable to connect from a remote
 machine. It seems
>that the CD which was shipped to me contains a 16-bit version of SQL*Net
>which is
>incompatible with the 32-bit ODBC drivers which are required for me to
>access the
>system remotely.
>JEP = joelp_at_dsiflow.com
Received on Sun Mar 29 1998 - 00:00:00 CST