Re: Oracle TCP/IP Protocol Adapter for Windows, TNS errors! How to solve?

Ronald van der Burg wrote:
>
> Hi,
>

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> The problem is as follows. The Oracle TCP/IP Protocol Adapter is installed
> using the normal Oracle install program. For TCP/IP, the Winsock 1.1 and
> Windows NT TCP/IP option is selected. After the install program has finished,
> we tried to ping the database. All we get is the error message "ORA-12203 TNS:
> unable to connect destination".

This may be a dumb question, but I believe in always starting at the beginning.  After the Oracle Installer finished, did you place a TNSNAMES.ORA file in your C:\ORAWIN\NETWORK\ADMIN directory (there isn't one there by default)? Does that file have a valid entry for your database in it?

> We know the server is working, we have one client system using Windows 3.11
> which works. It is also possible to login via TCP/IP into the server using a
> simple terminal program, so the server name (and IP address) is resolved
> correctly. We don't know why we cannot ping the database.
>

Regards,
Brian

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