NOTE: Find out which user uses the pc, and login as that user. You want all the things you setup and changes to be effective for that user. Systems that use policies, like windows NT and some windows 95 machines, need this be the case, otherwise all changes will affect the user YOU log in as, not the real pc user.

The first thing we should do is to map the drive from the NT server to the PC. This proves that the network is up and running and we are not wasting our time.

• · Go to the Network Neighborhood and double click on the NT server (whatever name they use for it should appear). Click right on the mouse and go to the properties and map the drive. Make sure that "Reconnect at Logon" box is checked
• · On NT, you must log out of the current user session, and log back in as "Administrator".

Now begin installation of the Software.

• 1. Put the CD labeled Developer/2000 Server in the local PC drive.
• 2. Choose English as Default language
• 3. Set Oracle Home / Install Oracle on a drive that has enough space, the default is usually good.
• 4. Choose Deployment Installation (this drops off just runtimes)
• 5. In case the Deployment Installation DOES NOT WORK then choose the following from the custom Installation:-

• · Developer/2000 Documentation
• · Form Runtime
• · Graphics Runtime
• · Developer/2000 - Open Interface
• · Developer/2000 - Procedure Builder
• · Reports Runtime
• · Developer/2000 Releases Notes
• · GUI Common Files
• · Information Navigator
• · Oracle Installer
• · Required Support Files
• · SQL* Net Chart
• · System Support Files
• · Tools Utilities

• 6. On ‘95, after installation completes, you must reboot the PC so that the new registry and path changes are take into effect. Dont try to run it before rebooting it. On NT, just log out of the Administrator session, and log back in as the regular user.
• 7. Make a shortcut for the Forms Runtime on the desktop. This shortcut will be used to launch the edumet menu’s. Do this by :

• · Right click on the Start menu.
• · Bring up the "Open all users" in NT or just "open" in ’95.
• · Open up "Developer 2000 R 2.0" group
• · Right click on the Forms Runtime icon.
• · Choose to make a shortcut.

• 8. Right click on the newly created shortcut, and under the "Target", make sure to append our master form, by appending "O:\Master.Fmx" to the end of the line. (Note that this assumes an installation with the O drive mapped to the Ntserver’s shared forms directory.
• 9. While still in the properties, make the "Start In" option contain "O:\"

Now we must edit the local pc’s hosts file. On an ’95 or 3.11 box, it would be "c:\windows\hosts" and on an NT box, this is usually in "c:\winnt\system32\drivers\etc\hosts".

• 1. Edit the hosts file to add the server. This must be the name of the Oracle Database server. It is EXTREMELY important that this be named properly, as the following file relies on that hostname.
• 2. (There is a bug in some versions of windows, that places a bad character on the end of the last line. So I suggest moving the cursor’s insertion point to the last character on the last line, retyping that last character so that there are now two of them, and hit return so that you can open up a new line to contain whatever changes you need to make. This will keep pushing that bad character down the file, and at the end, just delete that originally duplicated character. It appears to be impossible to delete the bad character, so dont lose any time trying.
• 3. Exit out of the host file, and immediately try to ping the Oracle database server, using the new entry. That is to say, ping using the new name. It has to work to be able to continue !!!

We now must install the Oracle database name translation file on the client side pc.

• · Bring up a dos prompt.
• · Change directory to your oracle_home from above install, and go to "network/admin".
• · We need to ftp over to the Oracle database server (ftp stands for File Transfer Protocol).
• · The user should be oracle, and the password you should already know from earlier work.
• · Make sure that you are in the /etc directory.
• · Get the tnsnames file by typing "get tnsnames.ora". This should get the file to local pc in the current directory. The directory you are in now should be find.
• · Type "by" or "bye" to exit
• · It is VERY important to see that the files came out okay, so you should edit tnsnames.ora, to make sure it looks good. If the file is readble and looks okay just exit.