[Gdal-dev] Oracle-bindings

[Frank Warmerdam]

On 11/16/05, Stephan Holl <sholl at gmx.net> wrote:
> Dear List,
>
> I am trying to force OGR to read layer-information out of
> oracle-spatial on a remote maschine.
> With reference to the oracle-specific site[1] I tried the given example
> and adopted to my needs, but it did not work.
>
> ogrinfo -ro OCI:user/pw at 192.168.1.199
> Unable to open datasource `OCI' with the following drivers.
> [...]
>
> which gave me an error. When I am on the localhost-maschine, where
> oracle is installed, everything works nicely and I get the list of
> layers.
>
> Since I am no oracle-guru (first installation) I am wondering if I need
> to configure oracle to accept conncetions from within the internal
> network and from other maschines. Perhaps someone can give me a hint
> where to look at.

Stepan,

At the risk of stating the obvious, are you confident that your
OGR build includes Oracle support?  This can be checked with
"ogrinfo --formats" which should list OCI.

I haven't done much with cross machine oracle access, so
I have no comments on that.

Best regards,
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