Re: troubles with OWS on NT

In article <3m3rlm$fhb_at_cardinal.fs.com>, thomson_at_PROBLEM_WITH_INEWS_GATEWAY_FILE (Doug Thomson) wrote:

>
> I tried to re-install several times, sometimes with the "typical
> install" option and sometimes with "custom". Now I tend to get
> a different problem when I try to start up the initial database:
> the TCPIP listener will not start up, and the database apparently
> will not start w/o the listener being available.
>

   I ran into a similar problem when I installed the TCP/IP listener on our NT server. I already had installed Oracle 7.x installed on the NT, which I shutdown, and installed OWS to see what was different. During the installation procedure of TCP/IP a NT service is created. Since I already had a service installed from the previous Oracle installation, the installer skipped creating another, or changing the original. The final result was that when I attempted to start the listener I was starting the one from the original 7.x installation not the OWS installation.

   I verified this by using the NT utility REGEDIT to figure out was procedure was executing for the TCP/IP service. I then modified the service, again using REGEDIT, so it was pointing to the correct directory for OWS.

   You also might want to check any other Oracle services that were created to verify that they are pointing to the OWS directory.

Hope this is of some help.

B. M. Brooks
AKA The Legion Received on Sat Apr 08 1995 - 00:00:00 CEST