Hi I am working on Personal Oracle 7. I created a database alias, then created a connection from Oracle Navigator. When I click on the connection, it says ORA-12500: TNS:listener failed to start a dedicated server process. This is what the Oracle help says: Cause: The process of starting up a dedicated server process failed. The executable could not be found or the environment may be set up incorrectly. Action: Turn on tracing at the ADMIN level and reexecute the operation. Verify that the ORACLE Server executable is present and has execute permissions enabled. Ensure that the ORACLE environment is specified correctly in LISTENER.ORA. If error persists, contact Worldwide Customer Support. I don't know hot to verify that. I used the Control Panel on Windows NT to go to the Services list, and OracleTNSListener was not started, even though it is to start automatically. I tried to start it and it goes: Could not start OracleTNSListener service on \\SERVER. Error 2140: An internal Windows NT error occurred. I would appreciate any help. Thanks Jafar _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Jafar Sadeq INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051 San Diego, California -- Public Internet access / Mailing Lists -------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).
