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Timing out problem on the client

I have installed Oracle 8i standard edition (8.1.7) on
a WINDOWS NT Server.

I have also installed oracle client software on a client.

Although I can connect to the database on the server on quite a few occasions I am getting timing out problems
on entering user id /password either in DBA Studio or SQL*Plus userid/password sign-on screen.

I need to resolve this. Would appreciate if anybody can help me. Thanks

Regards
Makarand
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Hi,


This is usually caused by the server having a timeout too short for the connection to complete.
The parameter is set on the server's listener.ora file

CONNECT_TIMEOUT
Purpose: Determines the amount of time in seconds the listener waits for a valid connection request after a connection has been   started.   The complete handshaking between the server & client must complete before the Default has been reached (default is   10 seconds )  otherwise the  listener drops the connection if the timeout is reached.
if you set it to zero,  ie:
CONNECT_TIMEOUT_LISTENER = 0

this tells the listener wait and never timeout..


Hope this helps,
sincerely,
dBalaski

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I have tried what you said

Edited the listener.ora file sitting in
d:\oracle\ora81\network\admin directory and added the line
CONNECT_TIMEOUT_LISTENER = 0 at the end. Saved the file.

I then stop and restarted the ORACLETNSLISTNER service.

I then checked my client - it still gives me timeout
adhoc.

Any further clues??

Regards
Makarand

Can you post up example error messages you are getting
(cut & paste)??

THis would be a little more helpful.

sincerely
dB
May be you are getting the error beacuse of profile attached with user having idle time. Exact massage will help us to solve the problem

Sam
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Guys,

I sorted the problem. I replaced the server name in tnsnames.ora with the ip address of the server and that has made real difference in terms of connectivity.

So far; this morning no timing out problems.

Thanks for your help.

Regards
Makarand
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