Re: Metalink down

On 30 Jul 2003 16:52:06 GMT, Chuck <chuckh_at_softhome.net> wrote:

>Is it just me or is Metalink down again? I guess I'll have to ask my
>question here.
>
>Is there a bug with the oracle 817 and 920 clients on Win2k when it comes
>to the TNS_ADMIN environment variable. It seems to be ignoring the setting
>in both version. I normally use this when I have multiple client installs
>to poing them all to one admin directory so I only have one to maintain.
>Both version are using their own local admin directories though. I've tried
>setting TNS_ADMIN as an env. variable, and in the registry. It's ignoring
>it no matter where I put it.

Which registry key are you putting it in? As we moved from 8.0 to 8.1 we found some differences in which key it was expected in, and were never able to completely pin down the definition. It may not have been an 8.0 vs. 8.1 thing so much as moving from a single Oracle home to a server with multiple homes. If you have two Oracle homes you will have:

HKLM/software/oracle/home0

and

HKLM/software/oracle/home1

If you want to have a common tns admin directory for both homes, you'll need to tell both homes about it -- put the tns_admin string in both home0 and home1.

I vaguely remember stumbling across a reference somewhere that there is yet another setting that controls where Oracle will look for an occurance of the tns_admin string, but don't remember any details. Received on Wed Jul 30 2003 - 12:25:23 CDT