its a 'feature' of 9i installs on windows. Most accounts do not get *any*
permissions on $ORACLE_BASE. This is either a good thing or a bad thing.
--
Niall Litchfield
Oracle DBA
Audit Commission UK
"Billy Verreynne" <vslabs_at_onwe.co.za> wrote in message
news:1a75df45.0308252115.810c96e_at_posting.google.com...
> "jh" <jhui_at_rcn.com> wrote in
>
> > Microsoft OLE DB Provider for Oracle error '80004005'
> > Oracle client and networking components were not found. These
components
> > are supplied by Oracle Corporation and are part of the Oracle Version
7.3.3
> > or later client software installation. Provider is unable to function
until
> > these components are installed.
> >
> > /index.asp, line 15
> >
> > OS Platform is Windows 2000 Server SP4, PIII
> > Oracle Database is 9.0.1.
> >
> > I can connect to the database through SQL*Plus and tnsping is
successful.
>
> In that case, the NT user under which IIS/ASP runs cannot.
>
> Usually IIS is run in a guest account of sorts to minimize the damage
> a hack attack can do (but then this seldom works givem Microsoft
> flagrant disregard for security). Said guess account likely does not
> have the ORACLE_HOME/bin it is path and cannot find the OCI and other
> Oracle DLLs required.
>
> --
> Billy
Received on Wed Aug 27 2003 - 04:06:22 CDT
