Re: Network Install of Oracle products

We run our Oracle that way....

The 'trick' is to do a standard install from a NT client but to use a network directory( called, in our case the default Orant ) as Oracle_Home after first setting the archive flag on all files in your PC's winnt/system32 directory ( so you can tell which *.dll's were added by the install)

Then export the registry entries on the PC on which you installed the above and edit it to change the drive/directory specification to the network drive where you installed Oracle_Home ( this location should be mapped to the same drive letter for all users of this software )

Place the exported registry file in a directory on the network ( to make things easier, put it in a directory under Oracle_Home) as well as a set of the DLLs identified as above.

Have your users map their drive, and using explorer, dbl-click on the registry file to update their client machine's registry, copy the DLLs into their system32 directory ( replacing only OLDER existing versions) and modify their environment by modifying the path to include orant\bin.

Have your users then create shortcuts to the relevant executables and all should work well.

Good luck.

This is only legal for those who have sufficient licenses to accommodate your number of users, unless you restrict simultaneous access to the files.

If you have questions, please E-Mail me.

john.greco_at_dot.state.mn.us  

"Mark Cudmore" <mcudmore_at_kamloops.env.gov.bc.ca> wrote:

>Hi all, I have been given the task of finding out if it is possible to have
>an administrative install of Oracle Administrative products reside on a
>network, and then to have users in the admin group run these applications
>from the network, instead of installing all these products on each machine.
>We presently use Oracle Designer/2000, Developer/2000, Enterprise Manager
>1.4. Our administrative group normally runs on Windows NT workstations with
>64 MB of Ram. We have a 10MB/sec Ethernet network.
>
>We have a site license for all the above products, so licensing is not a
>concern, just disk space!
>
>If anyone can give me any pointers as to where I can find out about doing
>this, please let me know.
>
>Another day in the era of more bang for the buck!
>--
>Mark Cudmore
>email: mcudmore_at_kamloops.env.gov.bc.ca
>
>
>
Received on Thu Apr 02 1998 - 00:00:00 CEST