Re: can no longer connect

"Steve ." wrote:
>
> One other thing. Wanted to put up my server config files if you don't
> mind to see if they are ok. I believe everything is ok, but didn't
> want to completely rule out my end till I was sure.
>
> Basically I can connect using SQL*PLUS from my NT box to the Sun
> Oracle Server. I can also connect to the database telneted into the
> Sun box and using sqlplus user/pass_at_k5ent1 and it works. The clients
> usually connect using a string of user/pass_at_12.34.56.7:1521:k5ent1.
> At least that's what is placed in the connect string on the client's
> config.
>
>

There connect string should simply be:

user/pass_at_kent1

There are no good reasons at any time to bypass tnsnames.ora. What's even worse, their connect string is formatted wrong Received on Fri Jul 14 2000 - 00:00:00 CDT