Re: Problems with Oracle 8 client and ODBC install

Hi,

    Well now. You installed with no problems on 30 boxes and then had trouble with 5 other boxes?

    Check out the hardware on the five failures.

    What software is different and common on the 5 bad guys that isn't installed on the 30 good guys?

    Your problem sounds like it is either hardware or one of those infamous programs that mucks around with your DLLs.

regards

Jerry Gitomer

Versola wrote in message <36DC4C84.AC1BCCF3_at_lucent.com>...
>We are installing on approximately 40 Win95 laptops the following in
>this order:
>Distributed COM for Win95 DCOM95.exe
>Oracle 8 Client (NET8)
>MS Data Access Components mdac_typ.exe to get the MS ODBC for Oracle
>driver
>
>Upon completion of the install, we configure the ODBC driver in Control
>Panel Applet ODBC(32). When we attempt to Add a DSN using MS ODBC for
>Oracle 2.573.292700, we get the message below.
>Dialog box contents follow:
>
>dialogTitle: Microsoft ODBC for Oracle
>text: The Oracle(tm) client and networking components were not found.
>
>These components are supplied by Oracle Corporation and are part of the
>Oracle Version 7.3 (or greater) client software installation.
>You will be unable to use this driver until these components have been
>installed.
>
>We have installed the Oracle 8 client along with MS MDAC 2.0,
>and MS DCOM for 95 without trouble on approximately 30 laptops.
>However we are seeing the problems mentioned above appear
>in 5 installations so far. Searching through support.microsoft.com
>yielded
>article # Q192886 -->
>http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q192/8/86.asp
>This article discusses the problem for DEC's Alpha platform, not Intel's
>)-:
>From the discussion in the MS-PRB Q192886 article, the driver may be at
>fault, however, we also attempted to configure Oracle's ODBC 8.00.5x
>driver but this resulted in a failure too. In fact we expected to see
>the Oracle driver config setup dialog but instead, Nothing happened!
>
>Is there something we need to be watching for before/during/after
>install that might be the cause of the problems we are seeing?
>
>Any suggestions would be appreciated.
>TIA
>
>J.M. Versola
>
Received on Wed Mar 03 1999 - 11:53:54 CST