Greatings

1.I recently installed 9i on my new XP workstation/server. All went well except for the LOCAL NET SERVICE NAMING. I tried the manual way in network\admin\tnsnames.ora. It didn't work.

2. I reinstalled 9i and got the same problem.

3.As a last resort I installed 8.1.6...that didn't work either (the TNSNAMES).

Any usefull suggestion will be of great help..(logical)