Re: Developer 6 or 3d party tools unable to connect to 8i

Sounds like you may need the old $ORACLE_HOME/network/admin/tnsnames.ora as opposed to $ORACLE_HOME/net80/admin. Or could be you need to user fully qualified SID names in your connect strings i.e. ORCL.WORLD rather than ORCL. Regards,

oracle_man

florin wrote in message <38a8993b.0_at_news.pacifier.com>...
>Could you help?
>
>I have Oracle 8i (8.1.5.0.0) installed on win2000. *.ora files seem to be
>configured correctly. Sql*Plus and OEM connect without problems to the db
>server. However, Developer 6 or Rational Rose 2000 are unable to connect to
>the db. Verification of tistener configuration (ping, etc) works. Do you
>have an idea?
>
>Error ORA-12154: TNS: could not resolve service name
>
>Could it be that every oracle home needs to have a dedicated listener? (it
>doesn't make sense)
>
>Thank you so much.
>
>please use this to email me: florin_at_pacifier.com
>
>
Received on Tue Feb 15 2000 - 00:00:00 CET