Oracle 9i TNS Listener service

I have recently installed Oracle 9i server on a Windows 2003 Server machine, but have had great difficulty in getting the TNS Listener to run as a service.

Despite verifying in the Oracle Installer that the TNS Listener is indeed installed, and copying the listener configuration from another Oracle 9i server on which the listener is working correctly into the listener configuration on the new server using Net Manager, the listener refuses to start as a service (it is not even listed in the Services console), even after multiple reboots. I had earlier run into this problem when I installed Oracle 9i server on a Windows XP machine, where I managed to get the listener to work by launching it separately (as a process after logging in, rather than automatically as a service), but after a while Oracle became unstable. I'd rather have the listener installed as a service, but am not sure what else I need to do to get this to happen.

Suggestions, anyone? Received on Tue Mar 14 2006 - 18:20:46 CST