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Oracle Client setup on Windows 2000 [message #100767]

Tue, 19 August 2003 22:52

SasaN
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Registered: September 2002

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Hi,

We are running Oracle9i Release 2 on windows 2000 machine. We have about 300 users running VB application.

Question is: is it possible to install Oracle client utilities with all drivers, DLLs.. on the network machine and then point every client to use this installation instead of installing 160+ MB client utilities on each and every client PC?

What is the optimal solution in this case? We are desperately trying to avoid installing Oracle client utilities on every single client accessing database.

Thanks

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Re: Oracle Client setup on Windows 2000 [message #100768 is a reply to message #100767]

Wed, 20 August 2003 09:30

Mahesh Rajendran
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you have to install an oracle client.
Only case where an oracle client is not necessary is when using a JDBC thin driver

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Re: Oracle Client setup on Windows 2000 [message #100769 is a reply to message #100768]

Wed, 20 August 2003 17:01

SasaN
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Thanks Mahesh,

installing 500+MB on each client just to have access to the database?

Providing that network configuration is correct why you couldn't change the registry settings to point to required DLLs and libraries on remote server instead of local pc? Some of the libraries have to be on the client but not all of them?

To access the db you don't need management console, or trace or sqlplus, right?

If that is the only way so be it.

Oraclito

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Re: Oracle Client setup on Windows 2000 [message #100770 is a reply to message #100769]

Thu, 21 August 2003 03:38

Mahesh Rajendran
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[i]To access the db you don't need management 
console, or trace or sqlplus, right?[/i]
thats right.
there are different options when installing a client.
the lowest one will NOT install managmenet console, and other tools. it will just install the dll's that require to connnect.
try that.

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Re: Oracle Client setup on Windows 2000 [message #100772 is a reply to message #100770]

Thu, 21 August 2003 19:45

SasaN
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Thanks Mahesh.

Oraclito

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Re: Oracle Client setup on Windows 2000 [message #100786 is a reply to message #100767]

Thu, 25 September 2003 09:40

Tony
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Registered: June 2001

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the way we do it is exactly that...

install onto a mapped drive held on an apps server from an NT desktop.

Export the registry.

Map the apps drive exatly the same way on a new desktop, import the registry and you have a new client setup within a few seconds, no problems.

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