ODBC Windows to Linux

Hi all,
I have Instant client on a windows machine connecting via ODBC to my Linux machine with Oracle 10.2 on it. After days of pain, I finally bypassed the tnsnames.ora lookup and made a connection. The normal tnsnames.ora lookup never worked for me. I'm thinking it doesn't work. Ever.
My guess is that the CRLF to LF windows to linux translation never happened in the ODBC dirver. Has anyone ever had something like DBQ=mySid; actually perform the proper lookup on the server and connect to the database or did you all finally do what I did and bypass the tnsnames.ora lookup server-side? I like the elegance of the SID lookup solution and would like to implement it if possible.
Thanks for the help - Tim C.

Did you do the dos2unix conversion of the tnsnames.ora file? It may work for you then. Please let me know.

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