On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 06:20:41PM -0600, Karen McKee wrote: > I work for Central Missouri State University, in Missouri. We > currently have Oracle 9i installed and running on LINUX (SUSe) > on a 390 mainframe. It wasn't too hard, considering Oracle > finally sells a license for it.
Ooh! > However, we are configuring a RedHat server here that we need > to set up as a client to the Oracle database. So, we're trying > to go from LINUX to LINUX. So far, I've searched for about a > week on the web for an Oracle Client for LINUX, to no avail. I think you need to edit tnsnames.ora under .../network/admin on the client machine. You can run a tnsping against the service name that you added to make sure your client can talk to the listener on the server. > Have you any advice or links? Here are two Linux-centric guides (via Google): http://www.dbspecialists.com/presentations/oracle817linux.html http://www.linux.org/docs/ldp/howto/Oracle-7-HOWTO-4.html -Vince
