network adapter error while connection (help urgent)

[felix thomas]

hi,
i am getting the error whille runing the below code
Exception in thread "main" java.sql.SQLException: The Network Adapter could not
establish the connection
at oracle.jdbc.dbaccess.DBError.check_error(DBError.java)
at oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleConnection.<init>(OracleConnection.java)
at oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver.getConnectionInstance(OracleDriver.ja
va)
at oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver.connect(OracleDriver.java)
at java.sql.DriverManager.getConnection(Unknown Source)
at java.sql.DriverManager.getConnection(Unknown Source)
at dbAccess.main(dbAccess.java:7)
import java.sql.*;
class dbAccess {
public static void main (String args []) throws SQLException
{
DriverManager.registerDriver (new oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver());
Connection conn = DriverManager.getConnection
("jdbc racle:thin:@felix:2481 rcl", "scott", "tiger");
// @machineName ort:SID, userid, password
Statement stmt = conn.createStatement();
ResultSet rset = stmt.executeQuery("select BANNER from SYS.V_$VERSION");
while (rset.next())
System.out.println (rset.getString(1)); // Print col 1
stmt.close();
}
}

my operating system is windows98 amd oracle 8.1.5
how can i know the SID of a oracle database.have not used the correct SID of the database.
it is loading the driver only while connection does it says this error i think
Please help

[Jamie Robertson]

search this forum for "Network Adapter" and you'll find many answers to your problem. Let us know if that didn't work
Jamie

[felix thomas]

hi,
i went through all similiar postings but no solutions provided.Please help