Good luck with Oracle support then 8-) In case you have linked common files to the default locations in ORACLE_HOME you should be fine. --romas On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 10:38 AM, Charles Schultz <sacrophyte@xxxxxxxxx>wrote: > *grin* I have provided all that to Oracle Support already. It is a rather > bizarre situation. To answer your question about TNS_ADMIN, I have to say > "sorta"; we have a central directory in which all Oracle Homes on a host > link to. For example, /u01/app/oracle/product/10.2.0.2/network/admin would > have file pointers to individual files (tnsnames.ora, ldap.ora, sqlnet.ora, > etc) in /u01/app/oracle/tnsAdmin. Think that makes a difference in this > situation? >