Shared sockets on NetWare

Hello!

I'm sorry to bust in here just like that, but the matter is somewhat urgent. I am a fresh owner of Oracle 8.0.3 server running on NetWare 5, and am attempting to allow access to the server from the Internet, through the firewall. Just opening port 1521 in the firewall didn't help as I had initially expected, because the actual client connections live on different (seemingly random) ports. After spending a day on DejaNews I have found out that there is a possibility to change this behaviour if running Oracle on NT, namely adding the USE_SHARED_SOCKET=TRUE statement to certain location in the registry. NetWare, alas, has no registry <g>. I tried to add this statement to %ORACLE_HOME%\NLM\CONFIG.ORA file and restarting Oracle, but it didn't seem to help. When I started Oracle Navigator on the client and checked the connections on the server console with TCPCON, the Oracle connection was still on a different port.

Is there a way to achieve what I'm trying to do - can Oracle 8.0.3 on NetWare be accessed from the Internet through the firewall?

Thanks in advance,
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Toomas Received on Tue May 11 1999 - 06:08:45 CDT