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Re: Installing Oracle App Server on a Laptop that connects to different Domains

From: quarkman <quarkman_at_myrealbox.com>
Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2003 21:16:05 +1000
Message-ID: <oprtk2w3kwzkogxn@haydn>


On 7 Aug 2003 22:08:36 -0700, Yong Huang <yong321_at_yahoo.com> wrote:

> quarkman <quarkman_at_myrealbox.com> wrote in message
> news:<oprtjwysgtzkogxn_at_haydn>...
>> On 7 Aug 2003 07:44:33 -0700, GRecken <grecken_at_excite.com> wrote:
>>
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > I am having trouble installing Oracle App Server 9.0.3 on my laptop.
>> It > seems it runs ok until I come to the other site that I work at and
>> > connect to a different network domain. Then half my services do not
>> > start up. I already have oracle 9i database installed.
>> >
>> > Has anyone run into simialr problems or have any thoughts? Let me
>> > know if more information is needed.
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> > Greg
>> >
>>
>> Put simply, you can't change the domain name of your 9iAS box, and nor
>> can you change it's IP address. Well, the doco. says that changing
>> either is 'unsupported'... and I certainly don't know how to do it.
>>
>> For a laptop that travels between different networks, you might try
>> installing into a virtual machine (think Vmware or Connectix's
>> VirtualPC). The real laptop can do what it needs to do, but your virtual
>> machine remains isolated and unchanged. It had better be a powerful
>> laptop, though.
>>
>> ~QM
>
> Hi, Quarkman,
>
> I regularly change my laptop IP address.

Don't we all? It's not the changing of IP addresses that's an issue. It's the fact that you can't do it and expect 9iAS to work.

> In office, it's assigned by
> DHCP server. But at home if I need to transfer some files to my home
> computer, the easiest way is to manually enter an IP and a netmask
> such that it and the home PC are in the same subnet, then I simply map
> drives. I've never changed the domain. Not sure if that's possible.
>
> I think Metalink has an article suggesting installing Microsoft
> Loopback service to work around the 9iAS install problem on a DHCP
> client. Still not officially supported.

That would work because, as a completely spurious network adapter, its IP address need not change as the one you use for 'real' work changes.

That was the point

~QM

>
> Yong Huang
>

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