RE: Onames and various connections scenarios

No doubt im in the wrong ball field here but this is what I have

Windows 2k
Server1 Ns1 on 8.1.7.4
Server2 Ns2 on 9.2.0.1.0

[server1]
C:\> start \\server1\bin\namesctl dump_tnsnames C:\mytnsnames.txt It creates an empty file on my (remote) machine

>From the server C:\> namesctl dump_tnsnames C:\mytnsnames.txt it creats
an empty C:\mytnsnames.txt

[server2]
C:\> start \\server2\bin\namesctl dump_tnsnames C:\mytnsnames.txt And it creates an empty file on my (remote) machine

>From the server itself it creats a full C:\mytnsnames.txt file with all
the connect discriptors

How is this supposed to be called?

Thanks!

> Bob,
>
> I understand what you are saying (and your pain). My
> suggestion would be to use the 'namesctl dump_tnsnames'
> command to dump out the current Onames repository to the PC's
> $TNS_ADMIN dir via a login script or SMS. You might want o
> rename the current TNSNAMES.ORA file just prior to that as
> dump_tnsnames adds to the end of the current one and doesn't
> handle changes very well.
>
> Hth,
> John Kanagaraj
> DB Soft Inc
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> Hello All
>
> Im back from the trenches to post a quick request for
> help....<g>
>
> Ive setup onames on 2 servers and standard applications, (our app and
> sqlplus) connect just fine, a problem situation manifests itself when:
>
> 1 users need to connect (add a database) to dba studio. They
> get a error to the effect "cant resolve host name" And the
> other 2. Users connect to remote databases (via vpn) that are
> in our onames but many of these vpn connections once made do
> not allow access to
> *our* network resources.
>
> So basically almost all of oour users have one or more of
> these secenarios which means they will need to maintain a
> tnsnames file as well.
>
> I'm managing about 70+ connect discriptors.... And I was
> hoping onames could be a centralised answer
>
> Is this common? Or is there a workaround?
>
> Thanks!
> bob
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