Connecting 8.0 to 8.1

From: Jones, David <David.Jones_at_acnielsen.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 03:56:15 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.003C5A20.20011115032518@fatcity.com>

Forgive me if this is a RTFM question - I have not been able to find the right bit of the FM.

Can someone please tell me how to Net8 connect an 8.0 NT client to an 8.1 Linux server.

Everything was working fine until a second Oracle instance was installed on the server. I now get

ERROR:
ORA-12545: Connect failed because target host or object does not exist

My tnsnames.ora looks like this...

ORANGE.WORLD =
  (DESCRIPTION =
    (ADDRESS = (PROTOCOL = TCP)(HOST = 123.456.798.101)(PORT = 1521))     (CONNECT_DATA = (SID = ORANGE))
  )

The server listener.ora looks like this

# LISTENER.ORA Network Configuration File: /opt/oracle/product/8.1.7/network/admin/listener.ora # Generated by Oracle configuration tools.

LISTENER =
(DESCRIPTION_LIST =
(DESCRIPTION =
(ADDRESS_LIST =

        (ADDRESS = (PROTOCOL = IPC)(KEY = EXTPROC))
      )


      (ADDRESS_LIST =

        (ADDRESS = (PROTOCOL = TCP)(HOST = abc123defghi)(PORT = 1521))
      )

)
(DESCRIPTION =
(PROTOCOL_STACK =

        (PRESENTATION = GIOP)
        (SESSION = RAW)
      )


      (ADDRESS = (PROTOCOL = TCP)(HOST = abc123defghi)(PORT = 2481))

)
)

SID_LIST_LISTENER =
  (SID_LIST =
    (SID_DESC =
(SID_NAME = PLSExtProc)
(ORACLE_HOME = /opt/oracle/product/8.1.7)
(PROGRAM = extproc)

    )
    (SID_DESC =
(GLOBAL_DBNAME = TEST.abc123de)
(ORACLE_HOME = /opt/oracle/product/8.1.7)
(SID_NAME = TEST)

    )
    (SID_DESC =
(GLOBAL_DBNAME = ORANGE.acn032hq)
(ORACLE_HOME = /opt/oracle/product/8.1.7)
(SID_NAME = ORANGE)

    )
  )

I anonymised the data (obviously)

Many thanks to anyone who understands this stuff.

David Jones

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