Re: Methods for serving Oracle client files?

From: Mario van Essen <marvaes_at_hacom.nl>
Date: 1997/08/07
Message-ID: <33eb20ce.2349380_at_news.hacom.nl>#1/1

Koen,

Good suggestion... I tried it out and it worked fine the first time. I only needed SQLNet for this application, so I installed Oracle SQLNet on a Oracle clean client, tested it and theN:

- exported the registry settings at Software-Oracle;
- copied the whole Orawin95 directory;
- imported the registry settings;
- rebooted the whole thing...

and everything worked fine. It seems that Oracle puts no .dll anywhere than in its own Orawin95 directory.

Behalve of the fact that it works it is not the way to do software distribution through the network as I would like it to see (we have 1.200 network clients, mostly Windows NT 4.0). So I am still open for a better solution...

Mario

On 7 Aug 1997 07:45:28 GMT, "Koen Van Loo" <kvanloo_at_mailhost.acc.be> wrote:

>Just install it with your server drives connected.
>
>Copy the registry entries or oracle.ini to the local PC's and find out what
>dll's are missing.
>
>That's the way we are doing it and it goes reasonable good...
>
>Robert Lee <rlee1_at_mindspring.com> wrote in article
><33E8D2E8.7BA3ECA_at_mindspring.com>...
>> I'm looking for simple methods for serving and installing Oracle client
>> files (ORAWIN, ORANT, ORAWIN95 directories) on multiple PCs running any
>> of the standard MS Windows OSs (Win3.x, WinNT, Win95). All will be using
>> an application developed in Oracle Developer/2000 with Forms 4.5. The
>> Oracle server is an HP/UX with Oracle 7.3. All of the PCs are attached
>> to the network and will use SQL*NET/TCP for server access. In addition,
>> all of the PCs are attaching to a Novell Netware 4.1 file server. Rather
>> than having the Oracle files local on each PC, I'd like to have them on
>> the central file server. However, the Oracle Installer does not seem to
>> provide a simple method for installing the software to a server and then
>> running the install from the server at each client to configure the
>> client to run the Oracle software from the server.
>>
>> Anyone have suggestions?
>>
>>
Received on Thu Aug 07 1997 - 00:00:00 CEST