Give me strength

[MarillionFan]

Big shopping centre in Reading, innit?

Yeah. Right on sister. Respect.

Pssst. Suity. I don't want to appear thick. But WTF is she talking about?

[suityou01]

Yeah. Right on sister. Respect.

Pssst. Suity. I don't want to appear thick. But WTF is she talking about?

Don't argue with the mentalist menapausalist nutter.

[mudskipper]

Don't argue with the mentalist menapausalist nutter.

I thought with the menopause you cry a lot and sweat a lot. Sounds like you've hit the nail on the head. Get yourself down the doc for some HRT pronto.

[TheFaQQer]

Yeah. Right on sister. Respect.

Pssst. Suity. I don't want to appear thick. But WTF is she talking about?

There's a shopping centre in Reading called The Oracle.

Customers used to end up there by mistake rather than heading to Thames Valley Park, because it was signposted off the IDR and the M4.

[TheFaQQer]

I thought that Oracle's BPM stuff these days was all around SOA Suite, which would use a Java connection so you don't have to mess about with TNS Names any more. Wouldn't get round a problem like (for example) not knowing what machine name corresponds to an IP address, but it would mean you don't need a TNS Names file any more, just the connection details.

Whatever you are installing, though, you don't need a TNS names file to complete the installation.

[Freamon]

Suity : Hi, I'm having a problem installing this Oracle client. Yeah the tns entry is right, but the target machine can't resolve the host name.
Techy : You need to map an M drive.

Suity : OK, can't see where you're going with this I'm afraid.
Techy : All our tns files are on the m drive.

Suity : Ah right ok, sure. Trust me this tns file is pucker. Just copied from the server. It works. I can prove it working.
Techy : Like I say you need to map the m drive.

Suity : Will this miraculously fix your dns problems?
Techy : Pardon?

Suity : Just give me the ip address of your frakkin dns servers

Hint: "localhost" is usually not in DNS.

[suityou01]

Hint: "localhost" is usually not in DNS.

It's best not to post any more on this topic Freamon old chap you are clearly well out of your depth.

[TheFaQQer]

Suity,

I'm still not sure why you need a TNS Names file to complete the installation. It's not explained in the thread, despite your comment in your most recent rep comment.

Perhaps you could explain.

Or does your comment mean that Oracle isn't using SOA suite for BPM?

[TheFaQQer]

It's best not to post any more on this topic Freamon old chap you are clearly well out of your depth.

Says the guy who can't get an Oracle client to install

[Freamon]

It's best not to post any more on this topic Freamon old chap you are clearly well out of your depth.

Says the man who believes the problem cannot be with his tnsnames.ora as it "works fine on the server". Which is another machine, probably on another part of the network, and on a different OS.

And is also unable to locate "resolv.conf".