Connect problems to Oracle 8i using designer 6i

I am fairly new to Oracle products. I have installed designer 6i on my win98 machine. I am trying to connect to the 8i repository on WinNT. I can successfully use tnsping80 to connect to the repository machine but when starting Designer 6i, I get ORA12514 - Message not found.
DO I have to setup a local repository to connect to the main repository?
I did a standard install and nothing seems to have went wrong there.
Please help !!
David

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