hi

I have forms 6i installed on C:\ and Oracle 9i Databse installed on F:\

Its allowing me to access the db properly thru sqlplus with user/pwd@hoststring fasion. but the same is not happenig with forms.

There are other oralce hosts on other drive of laptop. BUt i ahve made the same entry for my hoststring in all hte tnsnames.ora files there on the laptop.

still its not able to connect wtih thedatabase. it says - cant resolve the hoststring. The meaning of hte error is clear to me. But i dont understand why such an error is happenign whe n i have entered the hoststring def inall the thsnames...

thanks in advance for replies
regards
abhivyakti

>I have forms 6i installed on C:\ and Oracle 9i Databse installed on F:\
By loading two different Oracle products on the same PC,
you have two ORACLE_HOME trees and two TNSNAMES.ORA files.
If/when the TNSNAMES.ORA file under the Forms tree does not contain
an entry for the database, then Forms can't locate the DB;
even though it is right next door.