Re: Connecting to Oracle Database viaTCP/IP

You need the Oracle client installed on your machine. You need to know the user name and password of the Oracle user you are going to log as.
You need to know the host name or IP address where Oracle is residing. You do NOT need to be able to FTP to your client's machine. Your customer needs to make sure that port 1521 (usually) is open so you can connect. If you are connecting over the Internet then it is unlikely that this port is available to you.
You can download the Oracle binaries from Oracle. Go to www.oracle.com and downloads.

Jim
"Rudy Nash" <renman84_at_hotmail.com> wrote in message news:9jve4t$qfm$1_at_nntp9.atl.mindspring.net...
> I am new at Oracle so bear with me...please.
>
> I have a new client that I am developing an application in Visual Basic
 for
> that has an existing Oracle Database (Don't know which version yet) that I
> need to connect to. Client is about 40miles away from me so I wanted to
> connect to the database temporarily over TCP/IP during the development
> stages.. I intend to use ODBC drivers to allow connection to
> database...BUT...and here's my problem and question:
>
> I cannot even FTP to the clients host machine with the login ID and
> Password provided by the client.. Client states I need Oracle installed on
> my machine to login...is this true? Is there a shareware or free
 developers
> product from Oracle that I can use to access clients data remotely?
>
> Any help for this new guy would be greatly appreciated.
>
>
> Rudy
>
>
Received on Sat Jul 28 2001 - 17:51:03 CDT