Yup it is a string and not a key - thanks for pointing that out :)
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Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2001 05:36
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versions of tnsnames.ora in NT/W2K]
If under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/ORACLE you have one or multiple
folders, like:
On NT 4 with Developer 6i and Oracle 816/817 I have never been able to get
Oracle db to work off of the tns_admin key. Only forms would work off of
the tns_admin, and without that key forms would not connect to the dbs.
Just thought I would mention that.
Kev
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If under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/ORACLE you have one or multiple
folders, like:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/ORACLE/HOME0
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/ORACLE/HOME1
then you have to create TNS_ADMIN string value (not key) in each of those
folders pointing to your master tnsnames.ora file.
It is a good point that it's a string, I actually knew that, but it still
doesn't explain why i can't get it to work. Not that it's that big of a
deal. I'll try again, no harm in that.
Kev
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Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2001 12:36 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
In Unix, one can create links to a master by $ ls -s some master
tnsnames.ora some other location/file.
(I know, I could, and probably should, use the TNS_ADMIN environmental
variable instead.)
There seems to be no equivalent of this in NT though. Creating a shortcut
doesn't seem to work.
