Re: Personal Oracle 8 and Developer on same PC - Connection Problem

Thanks for the various responses to this. The prob is now fixed thanks to 2 hours on the phone with Oracle Support. We tried so many thing, that it's hard to know what fixed it. However:

1. I completely wiped out everything Oracle from the PC and reinstalled only P08 to start with. The system was previously being confused by having 2 Oracle homes.
2. I installed P08 as the 'base' W98 user, rather than my own login.
3. I removed:
   > sqlnet.authentication_services = (NONE)
   

from the configuration file, and added a new alias to TNSNAMES.ORA to point to the ORCL SID.

4. When this was working with P08, I re-installed Developer/Designer and copied across the TNSNAMES.ORA file to the relevant
NET80 directory.

5. I ran the listener, and got a service for the ORCL database.

6. I logged on.

Thanks for the advice. It still seems might strange to me that P08 doesn't just work from scratch as soon as it's installed. After all W98 running on Intel is pretty standard kit.

Thanks again for the help.

Simon Hedges
Gloucester
UK Received on Sun Oct 31 1999 - 22:23:45 CET