Re: SQL*NET 2.0

From: Kevin McHugh <Kmchugh_at_ix.netcom.com>
Date: 17 Mar 1995 15:23:09 GMT
Message-ID: <3kc9gt$4ns_at_ixnews2.ix.netcom.com>


In <3k4oph$ieg_at_booz.bah.com> Kevin Uher <uherk_at_bah.com> writes:

>
>
>I'm tring to setup Oracle SQL*NET 2.0 to run from a network share
 drive. I'm
>
>having problems with workstations that never had it installed locally.
 On
>
>workstationd that did have it locally I just (1) deleted the
 'C:\ORAWIN'
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>directory, (2) changed the 'WIN.INI'

 ORA_CONFIG=Y:\ORAWIN\BIN\ORACLE.INI
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>(inplace of ORA_CONFIG=C:\WINDOWS\ORACLE.INI ), (3) changed the PATH to
 include
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>the network path to ORAWIN\BIN and (4) Changed the network ORAWIN.INI
 This
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>works perfect for workstations that 'had' SQL*NET installed locally.
 But for
>
>workstations that never had it installed I get an Orcle error when
 tring to run
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>'nettest' (ORA-12545: TNS: name lookup failure) Which I think is just a
 bogus
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>error I get when something is configured incorrectly.
>
>I think I'm just missing something small (INI or DLL??) I ran a grep on
 *.INI
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>and the WIN.INI is the only file I found. I would hate to have to
 install
>
>SQL*NET and then delete it... Help
>
>Thanks
>

We have been doing essentially the same thing at our site. The problem is that Oracle as well as many Windows apps writes DLL's into the windows directory on the client. These files are missing on an installation that just points the orawin and oracle.ini files to a network drive. You might try to install the software on the client with the orawin directory set to a dummy network drive. This will not use the disk resources on the client but will copy the necessary DLL's. \ Good Luck.

Kevin McHugh
Egghead Software (Standard Disclaimers Apply) Received on Fri Mar 17 1995 - 16:23:09 CET

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