Contact Oracle and open a TAR requesting the white paper for use of
SQL*Net through firewalls. Note that you MUST be running SQL*Net V2.0 on
both client and server.
> Christoph Bamberger wrote:
>
> Hi all,
> I'm trying to connect to an outside Oracle 7.3.2.3.0 database from a
> client behind my firewall (MS Proxy 1.0) but I just can't get SQL*Net
> to work.
>
> When testing the connection, I receive the following error message:
> ORA-12545: Connect failed because target host or object does not exist
>
> I have also contacted Oracle for information about this problem, but
> I didn't really understood what exactly I can do about that, since I'm
> not really a network expert. They said something about a port problem
> when the packets return from the db.
>
> So does anybody have an idea what I can do or is it simply impossible?
>
> thanks in advance,
> Chris
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