Comments on: Oracle Client 10g on Mac

By: VMWare Fusion NAT

VMWare Fusion NAT — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 05:41:41 +0000

This post provides an explanation of configuring VMWare Fusion, which isn’t release dependent.

By: maclochlainn

maclochlainn — Thu, 14 May 2009 17:48:29 +0000

Having once used Parallels extensively, I think that VMWare is where I’ll stay. I’ve got a huge repository of VM’s now there. However, I’m glad it worked for you.

By: JulesLt

JulesLt — Wed, 13 May 2009 23:06:45 +0000

I recently had to set up Oracle again on my Macs, and found the experience with Parallels to be relatively painless this time round, mainly because they provide a pre-built VM on their site consisting of Fedora+Oracle XE – it even runs up a Bonjour service for the admin console.

(Which unfortunately doesn’t work properly with Safari 4, so you need to copy the URL to Firefox to get in).

But basically it’s now very simple – most of the issues were then around sql*plus install on the OS X side, and I didn’t have to edit .hosts, or fiddle with the parallels network settings this time.

My new problem – how to get a backup out of the Fedora VM to OS X!

Anyway, point of the comment is to say it may be worth revisiting the Parallels set up, as it’s improved a lot in last 9 months or so.

By: maclochlainn

maclochlainn — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 18:04:10 +0000

Thomas,

I’ve gone back and re-verified the steps on a new MacBook and MacBook Pro. I’m not sure what problem you’re encountering but my testing isn’t surfacing a bus error after applying the Mac OS X 10.5.6 update and firmware 1.5 upgrade.

By: maclochlainn

maclochlainn — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 17:33:59 +0000

The lsnrctl utility is only a server component. It isn’t installed on the Mac OS X. You’ll find it in the Oracle Server. If your VM is running Windows, it’s also a service. You can open your services dialog to confirm that it is running, or from the command prompt, you can run the following command to see if it is running (required in Linux or Unix):

C:\> lsnrctl status

By: alkatal

alkatal — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 13:07:17 +0000

TNS-12541

looks like i dont have lsnrctl. I installed the client from
http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/products/database/oracle10g/htdocs/10204macsoft.html
is there another package to install so i can get lsnrctl in order to test the listener.

I m using an xe db and exported ORACLE_SID=XE on macosx

By: maclochlainn

maclochlainn — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 01:34:50 +0000

Andre,

I’ve updated Steps 5 and 13 with the requested information. I also added Step 15(b) to describe how to make the Oracle Application Express web pages available in the Mac OS. Thanks for the feedback.

By: maclochlainn

maclochlainn — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 01:12:28 +0000

You can check this blog post for information on resolving a ORA-12541 error. I'd guess that you've got a firewall blocking either ICMP or TCP incoming traffic. Did the tnsping verification work from Step 11 above? If not, you may want to take another look at Step 8.

By: alkatal

alkatal — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 00:16:06 +0000

hi followed all the steps but im getting

TNS-12541 on macosx
no listener ?
ping to vmware is fine. server on vmware working. sqlplus on vmware working.

Any idea?
thnks

By: Andre Kradolfer

Andre Kradolfer — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 21:40:39 +0000

Just to let you know that those using the express edition of the database need to use “xe” instead of “orcl” in steps 5 and 13.