Problems with error 'Cannot load IDAPI Service Library'

[Henrik Meldgaard Frisk]

Hi

I try to connect to a Oracle8.0.4 database from my client8.0.5.0 for WinNT,
but I get the following messages:

'Cannot load IDAPI Service Library'
File: SQLORA8.DLL
Alias: X
BDE Error: 8458.

Can someone please tell me if this is an BDE Administrator error or an
Oracle error. I assume it to be the BDE that is causing me problems, but I'm
not sure.

So. Can someone please give me a clue. Why to I get this error. I have tryed
to reinstall both me Oracle Client and the BDE Administrator for Delphi5,
but it's still the same.

Henrik
Denmark

[Jeff Overcash (TeamB)]

For Oracle, this error message often is because the <orahome>\bin directory is
not in your path.

Henrik Meldgaard Frisk wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> I try to connect to a Oracle8.0.4 database from my client8.0.5.0 for WinNT,
> but I get the following messages:
>
> 'Cannot load IDAPI Service Library'
> File: SQLORA8.DLL
> Alias: X
> BDE Error: 8458.
>

> Henrik
> Denmark

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[Rich Stoer]

Hi,
In addition to Jeff's suggestion, make sure the path to <ORACLE_HOME>/bin is
in the first 254 bytes of the path and that the path is not being
overwritten by a LAN logon script. That one got me not long ago.

Rich