Help!! TNS_ADMIN working in 8.1.7 w/W98

Question

Need help with TNS_Names....
In Win 9x or NT with Oracle 7.3.4 client, I could go to the reg hkey_local\oracle and enter a location TNS_ADMIN=\\server\share... this worked without a problem
This no longer works in 8.1.7.. Under NT, I need to put it in as a system variable and it works fine.
What needs to be changed in win98 to point Oracle to get the TNS_NAMES from a server?
Thanks
kubie
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Answer 1

Hi, I tried CJ’s suggestion; however it still doesn’t work for me.
I tried assigning the command line to a variable, I tried to log in directly from the command line, and both don’t work (see below). What did I do wrong??
$ SQLPLUS="/usr/oracle/product/9.2.0/bin/sqlplus -S \"sys/xxxxxx@<sid> as sysdba\""
$ echo $SQLPLUS
/usr/oracle/product/9.2.0/bin/sqlplus -S "sys/xxxxxx@<sid> as sysdba"
$ $SQLPLUS
Usage: SQLPLUS [ [<option>] [<logon>] [<start>] ]
where <option> ::= -H | -V | [ [-L] [-M <o>] [-R <n>] [-S] ]
<logon> ::= <username>[<password>][@<connect_string>] | / | /NOLOG
<start> ::= @<URI>|<filename>[.<ext>] [<parameter> ...]
"-H" displays the SQL*Plus version banner and usage syntax
"-V" displays the SQL*Plus version banner
"-L" attempts log on just once
"-M <o>" uses HTML markup options <o>
"-R <n>" uses restricted mode <n>
"-S" uses silent mode
$ sqlplus "sys/xxxxxx@<sid> as sysdba"
SQL*Plus: Release 9.2.0.4.0 - Production on Wed Mar 24 08:53:05 2004
Copyright (c) 1982, 2002, Oracle Corporation. All rights reserved.
ERROR:
ORA-01031: insufficient privileges