Re: Oracle 8 connectivity problems with Oracle 7 clients

From: P Browning <glpb_at_eis.bris.ac.uk>
Date: Wed, 22 Dec 1999 13:21:51 GMT
Message-ID: <Fn594F.KG9@bath.ac.uk>

Manuel Mall (mmnospam_at_arcus.com.au) wrote:
: We have a small network with 3 Windows NT machines. One machine runs Oracle
: 7.1 and all machines have the Oracle clients (16 bit), eg. SQL*Plus and
: ODBC, installed. We also have a 16-bit VB application which connects to
: Oracle.
: On a second machine we have just installed Oracle 8i but we cannot "talk" to
: it using the 16 bit clients from any of the workstations even its own. I am
: sure it must be a networking installation / configuration problem. One

I don't have a good answer to this but I have been banging my head against the same sort of problem with Linux Oracle 8.0.5. SQL*Plus would to connect to other Oracle 8 hosts but not Oracle 7. (The Oracle 7 hosts could connect to my Linux Oracle 8 host no problem.) tnsping worked fine every way.

In the end I solved the problem by installing Oracleu 8.0.5.1 EE and everything is now working as it should. I wish I knew why.

Paul

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E-mail: Paul.Browning@bristol.ac.uk URL: http://www.bris.ac.uk/ Received on Wed Dec 22 1999 - 07:21:51 CST