ASP/Oracle Connection error

From: <gvsbdisco_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 23:39:17 GMT
Message-ID: <3a2591f3.3464750@news>

Hi.

We have the following configuration running successfully for the past 6 months or so;

NT 4.0 SP 6
Oracle 8i Enterprise
IIS 4 webserver
database connectivity through ASP

Last week we started getting the following error when trying to connect to the db through an ASP:

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Microsoft OLE DB Provider for Oracle error '80004005'

Oracle client and networking components were not found. These components are supplied by Oracle Corporation and are part of the Oracle Version 7.3.3 or later client software installation. Provider is unable to function until these components are installed.

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The actual line of code (which had worked successfully in the past) that causes the error is:

objConn.Open "Provider=MSDAORA.1;Data Source=orcl; User ID=jim;Password=smith;"

I can still connect to the database remotely using SQL Plus and can query the db successfully.

The only thing that has apparently been done to the server recently was installing ActivePerl 5.6 and loading Discus Discussion Software.

Any insight would be appreciated.

Thanks Received on Wed Nov 29 2000 - 17:39:17 CST