We, too are looking for a replacement for shared TNSNAMES files and had come
across the paper listed below on using OpenLDAP. It sounded just like the
solution we were looking for but when we tried to follow the directions we
found that they were written for an Oracle 8.x environment, were using 9.2,
and Oracle has packaged LDAP differently in newer releases and we could not
find the files which were used in the directions. Has anyone tried to update
the directions in this paper using a 9.2 release?
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On Behalf Of Gogala, Mladen
Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 2004 2:38 PM
To: 'Chris_Welton_at_thruway.state.ny.us'; Rich.Jesse_at_quadtechworld.com
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Subject: RE: Solution to 100's of Oracle clients installed with Net8 and l
ocal tnsnames.ora, sqlnet.ora
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Mladen Gogala
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Of course, that is nothing that NFS or Samba couldn't do.
If you intensely dislike software monopolies and their
"right to innovate", you will not use Micros*t technology,
even if it was the only thing on the world. In this case,
there are many available technologies, better or equal to
those of the BSOD peddlers. NFS, Samba, rsync, source control
technologies that have distributed checkout and OpenLDAP
can all do the job. Here is a great paper by Jeremiah Wilton
which shows you how to do that with OpenLDAP:
http://home.nc.rr.com/jtlayton/oid2openldap.html
Don't get me wrong, I don't have anything against MS.
At least, I don't have anything efficient.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Welton [mailto:Chris_Welton_at_thruway.state.ny.us]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 2004 2:25 PM
> To: Rich.Jesse_at_quadtechworld.com
> Cc: oracle-l_at_freelists.org
> Subject: RE: Solution to 100's of Oracle clients installed
> with Net8 and local tnsnames.ora, sqlnet.ora
>
>
> Paula, Niall, Rich,
>
> If you are using Windows based clients and Windows based
> network authentication you may want to consider using the
> Microsoft Distributed File System technology (DFS) in tandem
> with the Oracle TNS_ADMIN environment variable.
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