Re: odd behavior on client installation

On Oct 5, 3:57 am, "Shakespeare" <what...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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On Oct 3, 1:58 pm, EdStevens <quetico_...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Platform: Oracle 10.2 client on XP-Pro

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Solution found. Ripping out the \oracle directories and the \oracle
key from HKLM wasn't enough. There was still an entry for tns_admin
floating around in the system environment settings, and that was
pointing to my original instant_client location. Apparently the OUI
honors that and places the net config files there regardless of where
ORACLE_HOME is located. And being an environment variable, it took
precedence over the tns_admin in the registry when I opened a command
window to run sqlplus.

When I did another un-install, delete oracle directories and registry
keys, *AND* clean up the system environment (My Computer, Properties)
the install went exactly as I expected and have always seen it
before.

Right. That's exactly what the TNS_ADMIN environment variable is for...

Shakespeare.

Well, I knew what tns_admin is *for*! But on Windoze systems I had
never seen it anywhere but the registry (HKLM\software\oracle). What
was eluding me was the fact that it was set somewhere I wasn't
expecting, leading to my purge of Oracle from the system being
incomplete, leading to the next installation being influenced by the
presence of environment settings being set from places I had never
previously observed them being set.

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