Starting Oracle in solaris in command line

I have trouble starting the oracle server and the network components using command line

I have 8.1.5 Oracle 8i under solaris

I followed the document

http://oradoc.photo.net/ora816/network.816/a76933/connect.htm

Since I don't have the names control/name server installed [ everything running off from the local machines as far as names is concerned ]

First, I started the listener by lsnctrl

LSNCTRL >> start

and it seems to come up fine

And then I started the db server using the sqlplus /nolog

sqlplus > connect system/manager as sysdba sqlplus > startup

It starts up fine

I have created a db during installation, and give this db a SID darwin

The DB does interact fine from my client workstation, which is an Windows 2000.

Now I want to run sqlplus to do the SQL command on the solaris machine, I try to set up a Net8 service name on the Solaris machine. But, when I come to the test the connection, it keeps saying that

ORACLE not available.

And my ps indicates the the oracle process is running.

And advice and help is appreciated Received on Tue Oct 10 2000 - 11:20:38 CDT