We have 2 servers. Sever1 oracle 8.1.7 on VMS and server2 Oracle 7.1. on unix . Server2 is only for running reports 3.0, connecting to server1. When I try to connect to server1 as scott/tiger@server1, I get Ora-12505 error. I checked up the listener(server1) and tnsnames.ora files. Entries are fine. Where as when I connect to other servers (Oracle 8.1.5 on unix and oracle 7.3.4 on vms) it works fine.. Any thing that I should do ? Thanks,

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