A successful installation on Windows XP Professional SP2

Question

I have had partial success installing before.
This time i created an D:\oraclexe director with the followin INHERITED permissions:
ravn\Administrators : Full Control
Authenticated users : Read & Execute, List Folder Content, Read
System : Full Control
I made sure that C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts contained the IP address and name of the PC. It also contained localhost IP address and name.
Installation went like a charm. Even the Database Home Page works.
I suspect that most problems with Oracle XE installations on Windows XP can be solved with the proper inheritable access rights. Errors in network configuration excepted.
greetings,

Answer 1

.Net uses oledb connection. The connection string used on the WinXP system results in the ORA-12154 error on the WinXP x64 system.
from WinXP x64 system:
Microsoft Windows [Version 5.2.3790]
(C) Copyright 1985-2003 Microsoft Corp.
C:\Documents and Settings\dchman>tnsping xe
TNS Ping Utility for 32-bit Windows: Version 10.2.0.1.0 - Production on 14-AUG-2
006 07:56:31
Copyright (c) 1997, 2005, Oracle. All rights reserved.
Used parameter files:
C:\oraclexe\app\oracle\product\10.2.0\server\network\admin\sqlnet.ora
Used TNSNAMES adapter to resolve the alias
Attempting to contact (DESCRIPTION = (ADDRESS = (PROTOCOL = TCP)(HOST = daddysx2
)(PORT = 1521)) (CONNECT_DATA = (SERVER = DEDICATED) (SERVICE_NAME = XE)))
OK (120 msec)
C:\Documents and Settings\dchman>
it is the same for the WinXP system, except for the host name.