Re: net8 and twisted pair

Hmmm, getting suspicious here.
What versions of what products?
Designer/2000 and Designer up to and including V6 use the V7 RSF, and thus basically is a V7 product. V7 products on NT use orant\network\admin. V8 network uses orant\net8\admin
(don't wanna' know why - for 8i, it's back to network...)

Could that be the source of your problem? This PL/SQl tool using the V7 network, and not V8?
introduce tns_admin = c:\orant\net8\admin into your registry (HLKM\Software\Oracle), and maintain all network config files there.

hth, Frank

Raymond van Daelen wrote:

> Well, it can be even stranger. I freshly installed windows NT4.0 ona
> computer with network card and cables attached. Installation was succesfull
> and netowrk available. Installing the Oracle tools (Designer etc) went OK,
> eexcept for net8. Not even the configuration of net8 would start!
>
> Anyhow,why would net8 bother about how the physical connection is made? Why
> then are the different network protocol layers developep (physical layer,
> TCP/IP, .. ,net8) is configuration of the bottom layer directly influences
> to upper layers. What kind of mysterious links are present then? Btw on my
> Linux computer switching the cables alters the network cards setting,I had
> to disable plug and play again, but then everything went smooth again (as
> you would expect!).
>
> PL/SQL dveloper is not an Oracle product but from allround automations and a
> very nice tool for developing PLSQL code. I do not now how it connects to
> the database, but it does use the tnsnames.ora files.
>
> So, I may have asked for a broken network, but not for a disabled net8!
>
> Raymond
>
> Frank wrote in message <8qurm2$48q$1_at_porthos.nl.uu.net>...
> >Strange...? you asked for it! It's called Plug-and-Pray. Solly fol the
> >plonounciaon ;)
> >Looks like some network settings were altered, either automaically, or
> >by yourself. That may have broken the bindings.
> >What puzzles me is the fact the PL/SQL developer can still connect.
> >How is that established then - are you referring to the oracle product?
> >--
> >Frank
> >Raymond van Daelen <daelen_at_wxs.nl> schreef in berichtnieuws
> >39D2604E.3C163D20_at_wxs.nl...
> >> Hi there,
> >>
> >> I've experienced a strange phenomenon. I recently switched from coax
> >> cables for my network to twisted pair cables. Simply be removing the
> >> coax and placing twisted pair cables in the proper slots.
> >> From this moment on net8 was no longer available, and Designer,
> >> discoverer etc. situated on my windows 98 machine (and also on a NT4
> >> SP4 machine) could no longer connect to the database. I could not even
> >> start the net8 assistant to reconfigure. And a new installation (of
> >> designer and discoverer) on a NT4 machine simply didn't show net8
> >> functionality! Even though according to oracle installer is is present.
> >> Starting net8 through ../bin/N8a.exe did not work either (no respons
> >> whatsoever!)
> >> The databse (situated on a linux machine) can still be reached using
> >> PL/SQL developer, so the network connection is functioning! and database
> >> is up and running).
> >>
> >> Has anyone any idea what can be done to restore connectivity between the
> >> machine using net8?
> >>
> >> many thanks
> >>
> >> Raymond
> >
> >
Received on Fri Sep 29 2000 - 13:36:06 CDT