You CAN actually set the TNS_ADMIN variable in the registry under
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/ORACLE/ - It may not be there at first, all you
need to do is create a new "key" called TNS_ADMIN with a value of the path
to your master tnsnames.ora file.
HTH
Mark
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Granaman
Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2001 09:45
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
versions of tnsnames.ora in NT/W2K]
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. Copying files around seems primitive at best. Am I
missing something? [OK, OK! I'll reform and use the environmental
variable!]
-Don Granaman
[certifiable OraSaurus]
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Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2001 2:01 PM
> Dave,
>
> It seems to me that you are having a problem reading the proper
TNSNAMES.ORA for
>
> the different DBs. What I would do in your situation is to search for all
> TNSNAMES.ORA files in your PC, since you have products installed in more
than
> one home and more than one version you should have multiple. Edit them
and see
> which ones contain the entries that you need, in one or more of them some
> entries will be missing, what you can do is copy/paste the missing
entries, once
>
> you have the file you want then copy it to all the different "Homes" and
you
> should be able to connect to the different DB's.
[... snip ...]
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