I installed VirtualBox to run Windows XP on my Intel MacBook OS X 10.5.6 for one reason and
I've got everything working except the one thing I really need - and that is PL/SQL Developer.
The aim is to allow me to connect pl/sql developer to a database across vpn when I'm working
from home. I have installed all the necessary components (Oracle client, etc) on the virtual XP.
I connect to the VPN from the OS X host (checkpoint vpn-1 secureclient).
From (virtual) XP I can ping and ssh to the database server. I can connect from the command
line using sqlplus. But from PL/SQL developer I keep getting "TNS: Connect timeout occured".
tnsnames.ora looks fine - I can tnsping the database.
Running "netstat 5" from Dos terminal it looks like there is a name resolution problem:
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Active Connections
TCP xp-pc:1064 hit-nxdomain.opendns.com:1521 SYN_SENT
I would have hoped to see
TCP xp-pc:1064 tahiti:1521 SYN_SENT
Oh yeah - I also tried to install the vpn client on the virtual machine, but couldn't get that to
connect either!
Thanks in advance,
Darrell.