[poryan]

Ray, Were u able to solve this? Looks like a WFP issue. Try disabling
Windows File Protection and resinstall the client. With XPSP2, WFP is
enabled by default!!!

RayMan Wrote:
> We're running XP Pro with SP2. Installation of Oracle Client also
> installs/registers two COM objects used for connecting to Oracle
> remotely
> using OLE DB. These are oci.dll and OraOLEDB.dll. These are failing
> to
> register during install. Creation of a *.udl file shows their
> Provider
> missing. Manual attempts to register these - using 'regsvr32.exe' also
> fail
> with an 0x0000007e error - saying file not found. The files ARE there
> (viewed with Windows Explorer), the path variable includes their
> directory
> (c:\oracle\ora92\bin), and security has been checked on both the
> folders and
> users (appear OK). But consistently returns "not found". We're not
> having
> any problem with XP Pro running SP1 (OraOLEDB works fine) - so think
> some
> security settings have been "beefed up" in SP2 that prevent the
> registration
> of needed Oracle COM objects. I checked and the firewall is "off".
> Any help
> or pointers would be appreciated.
> --
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> perspiration.
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poryan