Are your env variables such ORACLE_HOME, ORACLE_SID ...(read readme of DBD as I dont
remenber them exactly). If your oracle client is executing well on windows, hopefully
there shouldn't be any problem

cheers,
Vishal

Andrey Bronfin wrote:

>  Dear listers !
>  I'm very new to this list and to DBI programming as well .
>  I'm using oracle8.1.6 on win2000 .
>  I have  perl, v5.6.0
>  DBD-Oracle  1.03
>  DBI           1.13
> 
>  I can't connect to my DB , and i recieve the following error :
> 
>   DBI->connect failed:  (DBD: login failed, check ORACLE_HOME/bin is on your PATH) .
> 
>  ORACLE_HOME  ( is in my path indeed and i don't know what to do ....
> 
>  D:\work\MP>path
>  PATH=C:\Perl\bin;;D:\Oracle\Ora816\bin;C:\Program Files..................
> 
>  Thanks a lot in advance !
> 
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