Oracle 9i Database and Developer Installation

I am a student going through the Oracle Developer Certification and I am hoping someone can help me with some troubleshooting. This has to do with installing 2 different services on 2 home directories. I installed the Oracle 9i database enterprise edition on the c drive on my laptop. Today I installed the Developer software as well on the c drive on a different directory. I now have the problem that I cannot connect to SQLPlus on the database side and I can not access datatbase connection on the Developer/Form side either. When I installed the developer software I created a new directory called OracNT since it would not allow me to install it on the orahome90 directory (database was installed here)....Does anyone have any advice on what to do? I have install and unistalled both the database and the Developer software and I am getting the same issue...All help would be appreciated.
lari

Lari,
Not quite the right forum for this, but I suspect your tnsnames.ora file in both the
network directories under the two ORACLE_HOMEs does not have an entry
for the local database.
On trying to connect you should get an error message and number. Use these
and search within metalink, there are a number of good articles on network
configuration.
There are also network configuration assistants available from the database windows program
menu.
David

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HTTPd.Conf (Abstract only), Apache Setup.txt,
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# Based upon the NCSA server configuration files originally by Rob McCool.
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include "D:\oracle\ora92\Apache\Apache\conf\oracle_apache.conf"
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Hi:
The install seems to finish everything without a problem except when it's configuring the Configuration Assistants, specifically the Oracle Database Configuration Assistants (after succeeding Oracle Net Configuration Assistant and iSQL*Plus Configuration Assistant).
The configuration stopped at 2% during the progress as it's copying database files (cloning database creation) and a pop-up flagged "ORA-12638: Credential retrieval failed". If I click "Ignore" then the same message will come up again. I can keep clicking ignore to have it finished the process but at the end it will flag: "Enterprise manager configuration failed due to the following error - 'job_queue_processes' must be greater than or equal to 1..." Then the install showed the configuration "Succeeded" and I exited out of the install.
When I open the Oracle Enterprise Manager Console from the Oracle Client package options of the Windows Start Menu and try to connect to the ORCL_LOCALHOST database, I typed in the default username and password that was assigned during the install ("orcl" and "orcl") and I pop-up warned that "SID given in connect descriptor could not be resolved." Does anyone know what goes wrong here? I have selected all the default option during the install except I have selected a single password for multiple databse items and assigned the single password "orcl" for all instances. Hence "orcl" is the only term I have used for username, database name, SID and password. Will that generate an issue or there's another problem that's affecting my progress.
My ultimate goal is to be able to connect to the database and create some schemas. Hope this details my problem and please feel free to request more info if necessary. Thanks and have a nice day.

The configuration stopped at 2% during the progress
as it's copying database files (cloning database
creation) and a pop-up flagged "ORA-12638: Credential
retrieval failed". If I click "Ignore" then the same
message will come up again. I can keep clicking
ignore to have it finished the process but at the end
it will flag: "Enterprise manager configuration
failed due to the following error -I had the same problem with installing 10g R2 on Windows.
I got around it by editing the network/admin/sqlnet.ora file as follows:SQLNET.AUTHENTICATION_SERVICES= (NONE)
and running the config assistant manually (./bin/dbca.bat, accepting all defaults).
hope that helps!
-- Bill

Oracle 9i Database and Developer Installation

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