I installed Personal Oracle 8 (on Win98) and then Developer 2000. I am able to connect to the database using 2 users that were automatically created during installation. One is po8/po8 (user/passwd) and the other is system/manager. When I connect using SQLPlus, I simply put in the username and the password. I leave the host string field blank....and it connects fine. However, when I do the same thing in the Forms Builder, it just hangs. When I use the database name along with this, it also hangs. In either case, I eventually have to kill the Forms Builder because it won't connect. When I try to connect to SQLPlus using the username/pw and the host string...I get ORA-12154: TNS:could not resolve service name.

The only database that exists is the default database with the name "oracle". Maybe that is the wrong name to be using....I'm not sure.

Is there some other set-up I need to do? How can I figure-out what connect string to use?

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

John