Re: Connection problem: ORA-12203 and ORA-12154

FlyingVee <b-horton_at_worldnet.att.net> wrote in article <6f38r9$dh7_at_bgtnsc03.worldnet.att.net>...
> Steven Cools wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > a little explanation about my current situation:
> >
> > Oracle 7.3 is installed on a central server (Netware 4.11 - Windows).
> > Several client machine (Windows 95) can succesfully connect to this
 server
> > (for example by using SQL*Plus) but there are problems with 1 client
> > machine.
> > I get following error message when I try to connect with SQL*Plus (with
 the
> > same parameters as used on the other client machines):
> >
> > ORA-12203: TNS: Unable to connect to destination
> >
> > or sometimes:
> >
> > ORA-12154: TNS: Could not resolve service name
> >
> > I checked both errors and their (possible) solution and the manual says
> > that I
> > should check TNSNAMES.ORA but..the other client machines use the same
> > TNSNAMES.ORA so that can't be the problem...
> >
> > Any other suggestions ? If you can please forward them to
 Steven_at_digimap.be
> >
> > greetings,
> >
> > Steven Cools
> >
> >
> Don't know what you mean that they all use the same TSNAMES. Each
> machine has its own TSNAMES.ora under ORAWIN. Check on the
> PC in question that it truely has the server it's looking for.
>

each machine has its own TNSNAMES.ora file but I've compared those files and
they're identical so the problem is not located in the tnsnames.ora Received on Mon Mar 23 1998 - 00:00:00 CST