vb.net - System.Data.OracleClient requires Oracle client software version 8.1.7

Question

I have a web site that I developed on Vista using Vb.net9. It makes a connection to Oracle. for the connection I use System.Data.OracleClient. It works fine on my machine, and our test server, but it does not work on the production server. We installed the Oracle Client 11 on the server. The error is System.Data.OracleClient requires Oracle client software version 8.1.7

We've tried, making a console app that opens the connection, connection runs fine, opens, displays a message and all is well there.

Then we make a simple web form, put it in the directory of the program, just a button, opens the connection, try..catch, grabs error, same error.

The console app was running under an Administrator, web site running under iwam. Is it possible that iwam has a different path?

Answer 1

I've run into this error dozens of times:

Cause

Security permissions were not properly set when the Oracle client was installed on Windows with NTFS. The result of this is that content of the ORACLE_HOME directory is not visible to Authenticated Users on the machine; this causes an error while the System.Data.OracleClient is communicating with the Oracle Connectivity software from ASP.NET using Authenticated User privileges.

Solution

To fix the problem you have to give the Authenticated Users group privilege to the Oracle Home directory.

• Log on to Windows as a user with Administrator privileges.
• Start Windows Explorer and navigate to the ORACLE_HOME folder.
• Choose properties on the ORACLE_HOME folder.
• Click the Security tab of the Properties window.
• Click on Authenticated Users item in the Name list.
• Un-check the Read and Execute box in the Permissions list under the Allow column.
• Re-check the Read and Execute box under the Allow column.
• Click the Advanced button and in the Permission Entries verify that Authenticated Users are listed with permission: Read & Execute, and Apply To: This folder, subfolders and files. If not, edit that line and make sure that Apply To drop-down box is set to This folder, subfolders and files. This should already be set properly but it is important that you verify it.
• Click the OK button until you close out all of the security properties windows. The cursor may present the hour glass for a few seconds as it applies the permissions you just changed to all subfolders and files.
• Reboot, to assure that the changes have taken effect.

Try your application again.