Path: news.easynews.com!newsfeed1.easynews.com!easynews.com!easynews!cyclone2.usenetserver.com!rip!news.webusenet.com!prodigy.com!newsmst01.news.prodigy.com!prodigy.com!postmaster.news.prodigy.com!newssvr14.news.prodigy.com.POSTED!34d3422d!not-for-mail From: Karsten Farell User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.server Subject: Re: Newbie: Problems installing 8i - TNSNames Listener error References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 25 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 67.117.210.172 X-Complaints-To: abuse@prodigy.net X-Trace: newssvr14.news.prodigy.com 1034265159 ST000 67.117.210.172 (Thu, 10 Oct 2002 11:52:39 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 11:52:39 EDT Organization: Prodigy Internet http://www.prodigy.com X-UserInfo1: [[PAPDONYRWMQQT[@JJ@NFXBWR\HPCTL@XT^OBPLAH[\RZ]CDVW[AKK[J\]^HVKHG^EWZHBLO^[\NH_AZFWGN^\DHNVMX_DHHX[FSQKBOTS@@BP^]C@RHS_AGDDC[AJM_T[GZNRNZAY]GNCPBDYKOLK^_CZFWPGHZIXW@C[AFKBBQS@E@DAZ]VDFUNTQQ]FN Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 15:52:39 GMT Xref: newsfeed1.easynews.com comp.databases.oracle.server:163738 X-Received-Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 08:53:04 MST (news.easynews.com) Fred Zimmerman wrote: > Karsten, > > Thanks for your help. I cannot start TNSNamesListener Service > via Services (NT) applet either. > > It is possible that my user (log into corporate LAN domain) was > not in Administrator group on my local machine at the time that > I installed Oracle from media. Do I have to un-install, and re-install > Oracle 8i after adding my domain user account to Administrators group > on local machine?? > > Thanks, > > Fred Zimmerman I don't think you have to reinstall ... but I'm not sure since I've only installed while being a member of the Admin group. Believe me, you wouldn't like all the registry "work" involved in completely removing a previous install of Oracle (the Universal Installer isn't very universal in its uninstall phase). Perhaps another member of the ng has tried a non-admin install and can answer your question.