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Hello all, I have a Linux 9 server. the server is running samba and oracle great. My issue is that I can only get to the server from other machines via IP. I can ping from my pc by ip but by name it gives me "unreachable host" error. I have added the machine name and ip to the etc/host file. I...

I need to get NMB started for samba. when i run etc/rc.d/init.d/smb restart smb starts fine but NMB fails What can i do to get this service started? thanks in advance

hello all, I have a redhat linux 6.1 server. I want to use this server as a file server. My problem is that when i try to log in to linux server from windows i get "network path not found". If I change the security = user to share in my smb.conf file I get in and see the share volume, click on...

I had the same problem. the solution is to turn off the firewall on the linux box. The default is medium. If you change this setting you should be set.

Thanks lots for both your inputs. Its working after i disable the firewall.

Hello all, I need some help. I can't connect from my windows machine to my linux 9 server. I install samba and its working fine. I can connect from Linux to windows. But I get this error messege connecting from my windows machine to linux. "network path was not found" . I can see the...

Hello all, Iam trying to import a access table into my oracle 8i database. this is what i done 1.created odbc datasource 2.open the access table> file> export> save as odbc datasource call orcl. log into the data source. 3.i get a hour glass like the table is exporting into oracle but then i get...

FYI As per my instrutor, who's has been working with oracle for 10 years. I was told that oracle does not run on windows xp.

wonboodoo you are correct thanks many for the info. i added an entry in the tsnnames for this database and is working great. also thanks dima for your help.

correct sem, the database is located on the same box that I am loggin into. specified field i mean that in the log on box that appears when you click on sqlplus icon. username .....sys password.......***** hoststring.......Novastar logging in this way gives me TNS could not be...

Hi all, I log into sqlplus by putting all of the logging info on 1 line. ex. sys/password as sysdba, this works fine. My question is Why when i try to login using the specified fields in sql plus it tells me tns ora could not be resolve Iam using wink2 and oracle 8i.

thanks for your input Phokat. Try commenting this line in the sql.ora and it did not work. I discover that what cause the problem was that i join a domain. For test purposes i unjoin the domian and the DB is working again. I still would like to join this domain. do you or anyone nows why joining...

Hi all I have an oracle 8i database running on windows 2000 server box. I unistall pcanywhere, it ask me to reboot when the unistaller finish. The problem is that now I get this 2 error messeges when i try to start the database. I try to start the database from sqlplus and from server manager...

thanks richard your advised was helpful. I can now see the tables but I cant see the data in the tables. I see the columns but no data is display in the excel spreadsheet. I know the user has the proper rights because from sqlplus i can see the data in the table just not from excel. Can you help...

Hi everyone, I am trying to view some tables using excel as my application. The problem im having is that i can't see the tables i created. I connect fine using import data from oracle. I know the connection is fine because i can see the dictionary views but i can't see the data tables created...