I did this for a while with the 7.3 client. Performance was abysmal.
My network admin also was on my case about network traffic. I don't
know if the Net8 client would be better or not. Pointing TNS_ADMIN to a
network drive is great, but unless there have been significant changes
in the client, I would be more inclined to have it local.
What I did for the network install was to set up a machine installing
the client to a network drive. Exported the registry key for Oracle.
Copied the Windows system files to a network location. Added that
location to the PATH variable. It was cumbersome, but it worked. On
the other machines I imported the registry file, added the PATH
variable, and TNS_ADMIN variable.
The problem with all this is when you upgrade the client, you have to
upgrad all the user registries with the new keys and structure changes
that Oracle makes. You may as well install each machine.
Rodd
On Tue, 2002-03-26 at 09:18, Ron Cetnar wrote:
Question to the list. Is there was way to install Net 8 on a nt
server and have client pc's execute the Net 8 from
the server instead of loading Net 8 on the client's pc. To avoid
installation of Net 8 on the clients. I already have
the tnsnames.ora file on the server and with a bat file that updates
the registry on the client to point to the server
to get the tnsnames file.
Currently using Net 8 ver 8.1.6
Thanks
Ron
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