Re: Oracle Client Installation / Universal Installer

"Ed" <ed_zep_at_ntlworld.com> wrote in message news:58e9f9da.0308260354.4afa7be3_at_posting.google.com...
> Hi.
>
> We're rolling out new machines and are having problems with putting
> both Developer 6i (uses old style Oracle installer) and Oracle Net8
> client with ODBC(uses Universal installer).
>
> It seems for a start, I have to install Net8 with ODBC in one Oracle
> home and the Dev stuff in another. Which I've done. I can tnsping
> successfully to the database but when I go to Developer and connect I
> can tns can't find service name. I copy across the tnsnames.ora to the
> other directory and still no joy.
>
> Has anyone here got any ideas on how to get the two installers working
> together. Or at least where I can find and Oracle 8.1.7 ODBC driver in
> .prd format?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Ed.

Please post the *exact* error message!
If you would have set the TNS_ADMIN variable (as recommended many, many, many times before) there would have been no problem.

There is no prd format for the 817 ODBC driver

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Sybrand Bakker
Senior Oracle DBA

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