Connecting from remote machine

Question

This topic seems to have been talked about alot, but I've got another variation of the problem. I get the following error when I try to connect from a client machine to my IFS server:
oracle.ifs.common.IfsException: IFS-10110: Unable to construct directory service
oracle.ifs.common.IfsException: IFS-10140: Unable to instantiate credential manager Ifs
oracle.ifs.common.IfsException: IFS-10150: Unable to construct credential manager (oracle.ifs.server.IfsCredentialManager)
oracle.ifs.common.IfsException: IFS-10176: Unable to get credential manager version
java.sql.SQLException: ORA-06550: line 1, column 13:
PLS-00201: identifier 'IFSSYS$CM.IFSCREDENTIALMANAGERPACKAGE' must be declared
ORA-06550: line 1, column 7:
PL/SQL: Statement ignored
PLS-00201: identifier 'IFSSYS$CM.IFSCREDENTIALMANAGERPACKAGE' must be declared
ORA-06550: line 1, column 7:
PL/SQL: Statement ignored at oracle.jdbc.dbaccess.DBError.throwSqlException(DBError.java:168)
My question is that I see the code is trying to access IFSSYS$CM. ...PACKAGE. When my IFS was set up, I used IFSTEST instead of IFSSYS, so in my IFS database the package does exist as IFSTEST$CM.... My first thought was that my IfsDefault (the service I'm trying to use) had the wrong user in it, but it does have User: IFSTEST.
Any suggestions?
Charlie

Answer 1

Yeah, that would be a CLASSPATH issue. You've got the wrong version of the JDBC classes (classes12.zip). Make sure you're pointing to the one in $ORACLE_HOME/jdbc/lib -- and if you are, then copy the "one that works" from the iFS server machine to your client machine. That is, if iFS is even working on that machine. The missing library (when using classes111.zip) is very disturbing. I don't know why you're having such trouble with the JDBC library. Make sure you've got ORACLE_HOME/lib in your LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
Now, please note that you cannot mix JDBC versions. That is, if you compile with JDK 1.1.8, you better be using classes111.zip when compiling and when running. With JDK 1.2, use classes12.zip.
Also, your configuration is a little "weird". Really, you've got two server machines, both of which are essentially database AND iFS servers. On the "client" machine, you're just using Net8 software to talk to the other database, even though you've got the whole database installed. You may as well just install the Oracle 8i Client there. That's all you need.
Secondly, iFS doesn't really have the notion of a "client", at least not the way you're working with it. If you copy the iFS jars and the service properties file (IfsDefault.properties) and run an iFS application on your "client", you're really running an full iFS server (I guess you could think of it as a "fat client" if you're familiar with that terminology). Currently, the way we have designed iFS is to have protocol servers provide the link between clients and the iFS server. That is, you could run a web browser (on a true client machine) and access the iFS server. Or you could map a network drive to the iFS server.
Anyway, feel free to ask more questions.