Re: Can't get SQL*Net working on Win95 (ORA-6106)

mweston_at_vmcsnat4.telecom.com.au (Mark Weston) wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I am at my wits end. Hope someone can help...
>
> I have installed SQL*Net 1.x and 2.x (at various times) on my dual-boot Win95
> machine. In all cases I specified "Microsoft Windows NT 3.1/3.5 TCP/IP" as my
> TCP/IP vendor.
>
> I can ping/telnet the Sun box (so I assume TCP/IP is set up OK) but when I
> try nettest.exe (the Oracle database ping utility), I get an ORA-6106 error.
>
 

> I am most confused by two pieces of documentation I have from Borland and
> Microsoft. Both say that ORANT71.DLL is required to connect to Oracle using
> their respective 32-bit development tools. This makes sense to me -
> ORANT71.DLL looks like a 32-bit version of ORA7WIN.DLL. The problem is that I
> have no ORANT71.DLL in my orawin\bin directory. My orawin\bin looks just like
> the one I have when connecting under Windows 3.1 - no 32-bit DLLs.
>
That statement is pretty critical - typically (not always - you may have specified otherwise) the 16 bit tools are in ORAWIN\BIN, and the 32 bit ones are in ORANT\BIN (at least that's how we do it under NT). If you're dual booting Win 3.1 and 95 you should be able to use the same set of drivers (assuming 16 bit tools). If you gotta have 32 bit drivers for ODBC or something then you may want to grab Personal Oracle 7 for Win95 trial...

Don't lose site of the fact that you can still use the 16 bit drivers! You could specify the *other* windows TCP/IP driver (wfw's) and go about your business. I've personally never got the NT drivers to work under 95, but have gotten the 16 bit drivers to work every time.

Hth,

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