Path: news.f.de.plusline.net!news-fra1.dfn.de!news-stu1.dfn.de!news.belwue.de!rz.uni-karlsruhe.de!feed.news.schlund.de!schlund.de!news.online.de!not-for-mail From: "Charles T. Smith" Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.tools,comp.databases.oracle.misc Subject: Re: oracle 10g installation - access not permitted? Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2007 18:54:36 +0200 Organization: 1&1 Internet AG Lines: 65 Message-ID: References: <1180955648.122213.304310@o5g2000hsb.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: p5b07c781.dip0.t-ipconnect.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: online.de 1180976076 643 91.7.199.129 (4 Jun 2007 16:54:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@einsundeins.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2007 16:54:36 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Pan/0.14.2 (This is not a psychotic episode. It's a cleansing moment of clarity.) Xref: news.f.de.plusline.net comp.databases.oracle.tools:35822 comp.databases.oracle.misc:79786 On Mon, 04 Jun 2007 04:14:08 -0700, sybrandb wrote: > On Jun 4, 11:36 am, "Charles T. Smith" wrote: >> On Sat, 02 Jun 2007 21:00:26 +0200, Frank van Bortel wrote: >> > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> > Hash: SHA1 >> >> > Charles T. Smith wrote: >> >> >> oh! Is that the explanation? I've installed the server, but in >> >> order to have non-oinstall users use it, I need to also install the >> >> client? >> >> >> Where is the client? I don't find it onwww.oracle.com- except >> >> something for linux - but I'm running solaris. >> >> > There's the possibility to install "client only" from every server CD >> > I've seen so far (which did not include Solaris...) It's still a bold >> > 200MB or something like that. >> >> I still think there's something fishy here. I can use sqlplus from the >> account where oracle is loaded, I just can't use it from other accounts >> - without manually intervening. Considering the level of >> professionalism that oracle apparently aspires to, I suspect this would >> be a bug ... if it weren't an operator error. >> >> > And of course there's this; >> >http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/tech/oci/instantclient/inde... >> >> No, that's even more of the same. I want to use what's already there. >> When you first mentioned client install, I thought it might just add a >> different configuration. But a whole new 20 meg. or db-less install... >> no, I don't think that's it. >> >> >> >> > - -- >> > Regards, >> > Frank van Bortel >> >> > Top-posting is one way to shut me up... -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- >> > Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (MingW32) >> >> > iD8DBQFGYb5KLw8L4IAs830RAnF2AJ0WA3mHge3vPrlC90iIiHCJiQYrTQCfTpca >> > ve4oUR24Y8ircr+D7M2Ga2w= >> > =+nyd >> > -----END PGP SIGNATURE------ Hide quoted text - >> >> - Show quoted text - > > Most likely you just either didn't read the installation instructions at > all and/or didn't follow them up to the letter. Normal server > installations don't need an extra client. PERIOD On normal server > installations anyone can connect to Oracle, provided a) the setuid bit of > several executables has been set b) $ORACLE_HOME/bin is in your $PATH > c) you have access to a tnsnames.ora > > Assuming this is a bug is just.. ahem.. plain ridiculous. It would indeed be a bug if I have to reinstall after the installation process told me that it completed successfully. I suggest *that* is irrefutable and therefore makes your "ridiculous" exclaimation ... an empty claim.