Hi all!

Hope all well at your end!

Working on Oracle v8i with OS as NT.

I am having this error as below in Oracle Names server:
I had used the setup option without using Region Database while setting up Oracle names server through Oracle8 Assistant!

WHILE PASSING THE COMMAND SET SERVER AS UNDER,DO I HAVE TO PASS THE HOST NAME OR THE SID NAME.WHAT OTHER CONFIGURATION IN SQLNET.ORA FILE DO I HAVE TO SETUP IN ORDER TO ACTIVATE ORACLE NAMES SERVER.

AFTET THE SET UP OF ONAMES,WHEN I SELECT DISCOVER ORACLE NAMES SERVER,I KEEP ON GETTING ERROR MESSAGES AS THERE WERE NO ORACLE NAMES SERVER DETECTED.

P.S:PLEASE LET ME KNOW THE DETAILED STEPS INORDER TO CONFIGURE ONAMES.WOULD BE GRATEFUL!

C:\> namesctl set server megvserv

Oracle Names Control for Solaris: Version 8.1.6.0.0 - Production on 22-AUG-2001
10:12:39

(c) Copyright 1998, 1999, Oracle Corporation. All rights reserved.

NNL-00018: warning: could not contact default name server
NNC-00003: error opening stream (DESCRIPTION=(CONNECT_DATA=(SID=*)(SERVICE_NAME=
megvserv))(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=TCP)(HOST=megvserv)(PORT=1521)))

I am not able to proceed further .is there any configuration problems in any of sqlnet.ora /names.ora /etc ...

Can you please tell me where exactly i am going wrong ...


Thanks & regards,

Amit.
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