On UNIX, I believe the environment variable is TNS_ADMIN, not tnsadmin.
Stan Nickel
Frank van Bortel <f.van.bortel_at_vnl.nl> wrote in message
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> dan wrote:
>
> > TNSNAMES and SQLNET
> >
> > I have multiple copies of these files, for example I have TNSNAMES in
> > ora81\network\admin, oraemhome\net80\admin, oraemhome\net80\tnsapi,
> > \oradev2k\net80\admin and \oradev2k\net80\tnsapi. none of these files
are
> > the same as any of the others. should they be? obviously I am new to
oracle,
> > thanks for any help.
> >
> > Dan
>
> When you introduce tnsadmin as environment variable, the directory
mentioned
> will be used by all Net V2 and V8 products to locate the config files.
> That way, you only have one set to maintain.
> On unix flavours, it would be an environment setting (export
tnsadmin=/....),
> on windows, it would go into the registry (HKLM/Software/Oracle)
>
>
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>
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Received on Fri Nov 12 1999 - 11:00:53 CST
