RE: Weird connection behavior

The tnsnames.ora on your windows box does not have the correct connect string in it.

Scott Shafer
San Antonio, TX
210-581-6217

"Common sense will not accomplish great things. Simply become insane and desperate."

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Daiminger, Helmut [SMTP:Helmut.Daiminger_at_KirchGruppe.de]
> Sent: Friday, February 08, 2002 5:48 AM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> Subject: Weird connection behavior
>
> Hi!
>
> I'm experiencing a weird behavior here: when I try to connect to an
> Instance - named ITSP - (I am locally on the server): user/pw_at_itsp, the
> connect works fine.
>
> But when I try to connect to that same database from my windows client,
> using user/pw_at_itsp, I get the message: Oracle not available.
>
> Any idea what is going on here?
>
> This is 8.1.7 on Sun Solaris.
>
> Thanks,
> Helmut
>

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