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From: joel garry on 11 Jul 2006 19:04

Quosek wrote:
> Hello
> I've installed oracle-instantclient, oracle-skd and oracle-sqlplus.
> everything works fine, except tnsnames...
> a can connect to remote database using:
>
> sqlplus
> xx/xx@"(description=(address=(host=10.3.1.159)(protocol=tcp)(port=1521))(connect_data=(sid=DVLPBIS)))"
>
> but I'm not able to use tnsnames.
> I've created (ok - used my windows tnsnames) TNSNAMES.ORA as below:
>
> DVLPBIS=(DESCRIPTION=(ADDRESS_LIST=(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=TCP)(HOST=10.3.1.159)(PORT=1521)))(CONNECT_DATA=(SERVICE_NAME=DVLPBIS)
>
> set TNS_ADMIN to directory in which I have TNSNAMES.ORA
>
> and I've got error: "ORA-12154: TNS:could not resolve the connect
> identifier specified" (sqlplus xx/xx(a)DVLPBIS)
>
> what's going on ?
>
> I've tried also setting ORACLE_HOME to /usr/lib/oracle/10.2.0.20/client
> but then I get error:
>
> SP2-1503: Unable to initialize Oracle call interface
> SP2-0152: ORACLE may not be functioning properly
>
> Has anyone any idea ?
> And yes - I haven't got tnsping (it was not delivered it this 3 packages)
>

Have you tried lsnrctl status on the server, and changing the
service_name to what that thinks it is (under services summary)? Maybe
there needs to be domain information appended.

jg
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