[AccessD] Oracle provider on locked down system

Sorry if I'm being dense Jim but I don't think I follow! 

The only thing wrong with my connection string afaik is that the provider is
not installed - I inherited the string and it works fine on the legacy
machines. There is no TNSNAMES file - there is no Oracle directory. Or would
this be on the Oracle server?

I have msado15, msado26 and msado27, plus the MDAC. But the code hangs on the
connection string with either MSDAORA.1 or MSDAORA as the provider. According
to MSDN the Oracle OLE DB provider is included with the .net framework but I
don't have that.

I've worked with Oracle before but in that case we had the Oracle client
installed on the farm.

This whole project is driving me nuts :)

Roz

-----Original Message-----
From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Jim Lawrence
Sent: 19 March 2008 16:57
To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'
Subject: Re: [AccessD] Oracle provider on locked down system

Hi Roz:

There should be all your standard common files like the ADO components.

Just check to see what the TNSNAMES file looks like and duplicate the
connection string in ADO-OLE. See example below: (This use to be a actual set
but it has long since changed so I think it has no current security
issues.)

<Code>
'from the tnsnames.ora
'
'PCAG.gov.bc.ca =
'   (DESCRIPTION =
'       (ADDRESS_LIST =
'           (ADDRESS =
'               (COMMUNITY = tcpcom.gov.bc.ca)
'               (PROTOCOL = TCP)
'               (Host = CRUSHER.gov.bc.ca)
'               (Port = 1521)
'           )
'       )
'       (CONNECT_DATA =
'           (SID = PCAG)
'               (GLOBAL_NAME = PCAG.gov.bc.ca)
'           )
'       )


' Microsoft connection string...standard security ' Substituted your
msdaora.1 provider Roz. 
gstrConnection = "Provider=msdaora.1;" & _
                 "Data Source=PCAG.gov.bc.ca;" & _
                 "User Id=" & myUsername & ";" & _
                 "Password=" & myPassword
        
'   Test connection string
Set mobjConn = New ADODB.Connection
mobjConn.ConnectionString = gstrConnection ...
</Code>

HTH
Jim

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rosalyn.clarke at barclays.com
Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2008 4:31 AM
To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com
Subject: [AccessD] Oracle provider on locked down system

Dear List

I have a legacy Access database that I need to make work on a Citrix server
farm I cannot configure. The database runs a very simple query on an Oracle
database and currently uses MSDAORA.1 as the provider. The Citrix farm does
not have the Oracle client tools installed, and installing them is probably
not an option. It also doesn't have the .net framework.

Are there any providers people know of that might be included by default in a
normal-ish Windows installation, or is there any way I can bundle something
into a package that will run on a system that denies users write access to
their C:\ drives? 

TIA

Roz

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