Re: Net8-Problem

Michael,

When you start your DOS window, try executing the following commands first:

   set ORACLE_HOME=c:\orant8i
   set TNS_ADMIN=c:\orant8i\network\admin    set PATH=%ORACLE_HOME%\bin;%path%

Then issue your TNSPING command.

HTH,
Brian

michaelbogen_at_my-deja.com wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I have installed Oracle Developer (C:\orant) and Oracle 8i (c:\orant8i)
> on Windows NT 4.0. Basicly everything works, except of the following:
> Beeing logged in as NT-administrator and trying to connect to the
> database (via net8) I always get a tns-12538 Error (TNS:no such protocol
> adapter). tnsping80 also does not work. However, as a normal user I
> don't have that problem. In sqlnet.ora I set the trace level to 16 and saw
> in the tracefile that tnsnames.ora is not found, altough both
> ORACLE_HOME and TNS_ADMIN are set properly.
> Any ideas? Thanks for any help!!
>
> Michael
>
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