To create a centralised tnsnames.ora

Hi Friends,
We have more than 6 QA database's, and each time any new DB is up i need to make changes in all the QA database.I am planing to create a centralised location for tnsnames.ora file where in i just add in one location and all the 6 QA gets this reflected.Can any one help me in setting this up or help in getting DOC's on this.

I appreciate all ur help.

regards
anandkl

win 2k? unix?

on win 2k you could map a drive to shared location

steve

Hi Steve,
Its on UNIX-solaris 2.7
oracle 8.1.7.4

regards
anandkl

You could get a shared mount point, and set the environment variable TNS_ADMIN to where you want to keep your sqlnet files.

If that doesn't work for some reason, you could always soft link all tnsnames.ora's in each ORACLE_HOME to one file on a shared mount point.

Hi Friends,
Thanks to all, i was able to do this.I created a shared mount point created a tnsnames.ora file there and created a soft link from all the oracle client m/c to this mount point.

Thanks to all.

regards
anandkl