ORA-12560 ERROR, WINME (please help !!!)

Hi everybody,

First of all, apologises to raise up this problem which seems to be a very "old classic" in oracle world, but myself i rather have knowledges under SQl Server. Even though i saw lots of posts about it, i didn't find a solution that really matched my problem (everybody who posted a message around this, said that...).

Well anyway, here is my configuration. I've got on a laptop two partitions, one with win2k, the second with winMe. I work in local but have got a network card for internet connections only.

I installed Ora817 Enter. edition on win2k and it worked perfectly the first time with standard inst. But with winMe, i'm not able actually to make it run properly and receive this ora-12560 error protocol adapter each time i want to connect with SQL plus. I was first suprised that during the installation, on "choose installation type", the menu is totally different as on win2k. There was simply no
"Enterprise edition" option but "Administrator", "progammer" or
"client". I chose to run "programer installation".

During inst. , I cancelled the network configuration and did it manually with NEt8 assistant. I also created there a really simple service name with the name of my machine as the host, tcp as protocol. Did the same for the listener and created a database, under database services.

I think that the listener doesn't even start, so first question, how to start the listener under winMe ? Because if i run the standard commands under DOs, it doens't recognize it as commands !

Thanks in advance for those who will spend some time to help me. Received on Wed Oct 03 2001 - 00:47:52 CDT