OAS 4 questions

a few questions, hopefully somebody can help me as all this is new to me.

i am attempting to installing OAS.4.0.7 on NT 4 sp 3 running IIS 4 and Oracle RDBMS 8.0.5. this machine is behind a firewall. there are two or three other machines in the network.

1. the db needs to be stopped prior to install. i went to control panel>services and stopped the only active oracle service i could see. is this all that needs to be done?

a second oracle home needs to be created because of the versions of OAS and Oracle. I did that. This comes into play in the next question.

2) variable TNS_ADMIN needs to be set prior to install to the location of tnsnames.ora. that file is in directory e:\orant\Net80\ADMIN. the install documentation is unclear to me. should the variable be set to %ORACLE_HOME%\Net80\ as one interpretation of the documentation suggests? Or, should it be set to e:\orant\Net80\ADMIN? Or, should it be set to something else?

3) when specifying a site name, can that be anything i choose? or, does it have to relate to the name defined in IIS?

4) how do you set service OracleStartOAS4.0(ORACLE_HOME, ORAWEB_SITE) to automatic? The documentation states that this service should not be used for starting OAS from the services panel.

Your help is greatly appreciated!

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Bill Turner
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