Installation of oracle 9205 database and client software on same machine

Question

Hi,
I have installed Oracle 9205 on my laptop running on windowsxp sp2.
I intent to create a Database and access the same using developer forms which again would be installed on the same laptop.
Please help me in configuring this scenario.
how to configure the listener.ora, what about sqlnet.ora and tnsnames.ora for the server part as well as the client part
also what services need to be configured in windows xp
Altaf

Answer 1

Altaf,
Problem is you don't see similar output from your lsnrctl status. Try rebooting your machine and make sure you see similar output.
How exactly are you trying to connect to your service?
Sqlplus sys/password as sysdba
sqlplus sys/password@INS_LIST as sysdba
$ lsnrctl status
LSNRCTL for 32-bit Windows: Version 10.2.0.1.0 - Production on 16-DEC-2008 13:46:06
Copyright (c) 1991, 2005, Oracle.  All rights reserved.
Connecting to (DESCRIPTION=(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=TCP)(HOST=hostname)(PORT=1521)))
STATUS of the LISTENER
Alias                     LISTENER
Version                   TNSLSNR for 32-bit Windows: Version 10.2.0.1.0 - Production
Start Date                16-DEC-2008 09:18:21
Uptime                    0 days 4 hr. 27 min. 45 sec
Trace Level               off
Security                  ON: Local OS Authentication
SNMP                      OFF
Listener Parameter File   C:\oracle\product\10.2.0\db_1\network\admin\listener.ora
Listener Log File         C:\oracle\product\10.2.0\db_1\network\log\listener.log
Listening Endpoints Summary...
  (DESCRIPTION=(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=tcp)(HOST=NROHILLA01.usi.corpusi.net)(PORT=1521)))
  (DESCRIPTION=(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=ipc)(PIPENAME=\\.\pipe\EXTPROC0ipc)))
Services Summary...
Service "DSSXDB" has 1 instance(s).
  Instance "dss", status READY, has 1 handler(s) for this service...
Service "DSS_XPT" has 1 instance(s).
  Instance "dss", status READY, has 1 handler(s) for this service...
Service "PLSExtProc" has 1 instance(s).
  Instance "PLSExtProc", status UNKNOWN, has 1 handler(s) for this service...
Service "dss" has 1 instance(s).
  Instance "dss", status READY, has 1 handler(s) for this service...
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