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From: GreMa@t-online.de (Matthias Gresz)
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Subject: Re: Install into lab environment
Date: Wed, 03 Mar 1999 08:56:22 +0100
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Grant Getz schrieb:
> 
> I'm just starting to work on installing the Oracle 8 client onto Win95
> and NT 4.0 workstations in our main student labs here at ASU.  I would
> like to put as much as possible of the installation on a file server.
> 
> Any advice or info would be greatly appreciated, especially from those
> who have already installed into a lab environment.
> 
Just a few remarks:

Keeping the client sw on a file server would reduce administrative
effort, that's clear. But with your file server beeing down no acces to
oracle would be possible. IMO you shouldn't mix the oracle server and
the file serve, I prefer a dedicated oracle server.
I didn't check out the following, but think it's woth to be looked upon:

Take one reference PC (or one for each client OS), map a drive letter to
your file server's destination.
Install client sw on the reference machine -> fileserver
export HK_localmachine/software/oracle (may be you nedd some
ODBC-exports too)
go to an other machine and import the regristry key and adjust the path
in the environment.

If you're lucky it will work.

HTH
Matthias
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grema@t-online.de