If my PHP client is attaching to a remote oracle server, what do I need to do (outside of PHP to get it to work)
1) Why do I need TNSNAMES.ORA and SQLNET.ORA?
2) Aren't those files used to run a local listener?
3) Isn't a local listener to give remote users access to a local database??
4) Aren't I really trying to connect to a remote listener, not a local one?
5) If you are connecting to a remote server isn't the only way to get that to work by using the third parameter (connect string) in OCI*Login.
6) How does OCI Go about making and sustaining its connection? How many layers between request for login and actual authentication on the remote site.
I apologize for all the posts but much of this stuff doesn't make much logical sense to me yet. Perhaps I am trying to put too simple of a conceptual model on ORACLE.
Nonetheless, I hope that by increasing my knowledge of how the remote connection system works I can solve my connection problems and stop posting over and over again in this forum.
1) Why do I need TNSNAMES.ORA and SQLNET.ORA?
2) Aren't those files used to run a local listener?
3) Isn't a local listener to give remote users access to a local database??
4) Aren't I really trying to connect to a remote listener, not a local one?
5) If you are connecting to a remote server isn't the only way to get that to work by using the third parameter (connect string) in OCI*Login.
6) How does OCI Go about making and sustaining its connection? How many layers between request for login and actual authentication on the remote site.
I apologize for all the posts but much of this stuff doesn't make much logical sense to me yet. Perhaps I am trying to put too simple of a conceptual model on ORACLE.
Nonetheless, I hope that by increasing my knowledge of how the remote connection system works I can solve my connection problems and stop posting over and over again in this forum.