Re: oracle client network install

On Sat, 17 Nov 2001 11:27:57 -0500, "rocr" <ro_cright_at_hotmail.com> wrote:

>Hi gang,
>-- I am trying to setup a client installation on +100 clients machines
>(windows 2000) that will run an application that queries an oracle database
>loaded on a server(windows 2000 Server Advanced Edition).
>-- I do not want to run separate oracle client installations at each
>machine. I would like to install the client on a shared drive on the
>network and have the users map a drive to it, call it the O:\ drive. (The
>login script will map this drive). I want everyone to share the
>tnsnames.ora and sqlnet.ora files (I do not want to maintain over 100
>versions of these files). I will also have the ORACLE_HOME set by the login
>script.
>-- Is there anything else that I need to do in order to make this work?
>
>thanx
>rocr
>

I am afraid this is not going to work at all. There has never been an explicit mention of a network install in the installation documentation, I tried myself at various times, and never got it working.
You would of course still need to update 100+ registries or connect them one way or another to a network registry. But then again, my bets still are you won't get it working.

Regards

Sybrand Bakker, Senior Oracle DBA

To reply remove -verwijderdit from my e-mail address Received on Sat Nov 17 2001 - 11:03:41 CST