Re: Rename 10g machine

"Dirk Gaudian" <dirk_at_gaudian.de> wrote in message news:34ntraF4ccqrnU1_at_individual.net...
> Well, it's the same thing as with the virtual server (my earlier post)
> stripped down the the main problem. And I can't find a listener.ora
> (that's what we always change after cloning the virtual Windows server
> with Oracle 9i on - might have left that out in my earlier posting) on
> oracle 10g - the whole directory layout has changed.

listener.ora is or should be still in %ORACLE_HOME%\network\admin.

What error do the clients get?

> And it's both isqlplus and Enterprise Manager that don't respond: The
> first simply does not react, the later prompts me with a "You are not
> authenticated to view this page" error message because the web server and
> it's wonderful servlets cannot access the Oracle 10g service either.

I don't like the latter error message as you can get the same message for a number of reasons.

1. You might not be authenticated to the database.
2. You might not be authenticated on the OS.
3. I suppose it is possible that you could get it when the database can't be found but I'd expect a different error.

I *speculate wildly* that you *might* be getting the error for reason 2. If you have changed the HOSTNAME and used a local os account then the OS account would no longer be found (it would have been renamed from PC1\system to PC2\system say). I'd definitely look at reinstalling/recreating dbconsole (maybe there is a metalink note on hos to do this), and listing the error that the client gets.

I have zero idea about isqlplus, I always use sqlplus.exe myself.

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Niall Litchfield
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