Originally posted by SANJAY_G
You are not looking into tnsname.ora all the while.

And the hosts file on Windows is only for TCP/IP host name resolution.

Sanjay
No No, i am looking in TNSNAMES.ora and just to check whether it is reading tnsnames.ora...i changed it's name too...But the client get connected to database server by issuing

scott/tiger@orcl

Client is not reading tnsnames.ora.