Cant acces from Windows 98 clients

Question

Hi I have Oracle9iAS under Windos2000 Server and every thing works OK except that Clients from Windos98 or XP can't acces my portal page or OEM of my host.
I have edited theirs hosts file and we can ping to my host but They can't display my portal page or display the http://<host.domain>:port URL
Do anybody have had the same Problem?
From a Linux or another Windows 2000 Client we don't have problems.

Answer 1

In my case, copying the sqlnet.ora from the linux server box to the nt client box simply worked for me, as long as the following are met:
1) Do not use loopback interface in your configuration files. (No 127.0.0.1)
2) clients should be able to resolve the same hostname(+domain name) specified in your configuration files .. using DNS or whatever.
3) If you are using Oracle Names (and ONLY oracle Names), all you need at the client machine is sqlnet.ora as long as you specify:
NAMES.DIRECTORY_PATH=(ONAMES)
AFAIK, tHe only thing needed to be different per client is the SQLNET.CRYPTO_SEED (if you have it defined). However, 8i on Linux does not seem to support the Advanced Security Options ... even though it said it was installed. (Anyone got this working?)
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