Re: Installation oddity of the Oracle 9i Client on Windows 2000

On Mon, 21 Jun 2004 23:11:27 +0200, Rick Denoire <100.17706_at_germanynet.de> wrote:

>Our Windows Admin is desperate about a problem he is coping with:
>When updating the Oracle Client software V. 9, if Version 8 was
>installed previously everything works out fine. But on a PC running
>Windows 2000 where no Oracle has ever been installed, it turns out
>that only the Administrator is able to use sqlplus or any other tool.
>For some reason, any user logged in under a regular account won't have
>the environment set correctly and won't have execution rights on
>Oracle binaries. That happens even on a fresh installed Windows PC
>(2000 SP3 or SP4).
>
>Anyone who came accross the same problem, please let me know, before I
>open a support case at Oracle.
>
>Bye
>Rick Denoire

IIRC this has been discussed and explained a few months ago. It has something to do with file permissions. I guess some Googling (as usual) is in order.

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Sybrand Bakker, Senior Oracle DBA