title: Oracle: TNS-12532: TNS:invalid argument
body: <p>Trying to establish a connection between my windows box (2003 server) and the oracle (11g) database.</p>
  
  <p>I'm able to successfully ping the oracle host from the windows box. However tnsping command fails with the error tns-12532 error. </p>
  
  <p>Any ideas to solve this issue?</p>