Another ORA-12560

I keep getting a ORA-12560 error when connecting via SQL+. I know my TNSNames file is good because its the same one I use on my laptop.
My TNS file is located here:
D:\app\staomappadmin\product\11.2.0\network\ADMIN
TNS_ADMIN env variable is set to:
D:\app\staomappadmin\product\11.2.0\network\ADMIN
ORACLE_HOME env variable is set to:
D:\app\staomappadmin\product\11.2.0
Do I have this setup correctly. Whats also weird is that my laptop DOES NOT have those defined yet still works.
I'm running it on a win 2008 R2 x64 server and have installed and removed and reinstalled the oracle client
Edited by: k1ng87 on Apr 11, 2013 11:44 AM

k1ng87 wrote:
no, its on a different server (unix)
I ran echo %TNS_ADMIN% and it pulled up this directory:
D:\app\staomappadmin\product\11.2.0\client_1\network\ADMIN
I created \client_1\network\ADMIN and put TNSnames in there but still same issue. When I do a tnsping, I get a Message 3511 not found errorerror above indicates that ORACLE_HOME is not set/correct.
can you ping DB Server successfully?
can DB Server ping your client system successfully?
when was last time this client successfully connected to remote DB?
what changed since then?

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