Hi there, I am having an incredibly frustrating time trying to install the Oracle 12c client. I've been Googling various solutions the past few days and not having much success.
This is on a new VM. Freshly installed Win7 x64sp1, and that's it. After Windows installed, I copied over and expanded the winnt_12c_client32.zip file to C:\Windows\temp. I am logged on with the local administrator account. So at this point there is nothing but a clean Windows install and the Oracle client installer.
Now for whatever reason it seems you can't simply run the setup.exe. You need to first go to a command prompt and type net use \\localhost\c$. When I do this, Windows just reports 'the command completed successfully.' If I try to run setup.exe after that, I get the INS-30131 error.
Second attempt. I restart Windows (per various suggestions) and type net use \\locahost\c$ again. Same output. If I type the net use command a second time, then I get the output suggested by various posts. That is:
Local name
Remote name \\localhost\c$
Resource type Disk
Status OK
# Opens 0
# Connections 1
The command completed successfully.
I also ensured there were no Oracle services running in the background, as many have reported that conflicting with their install attempts.
Run setup.exe again and choose the Administrator install option, click Next, next, and get the same result:
[INS-30131] Initial setup required for the execution of installer validations failed.
Cause - Failed to access the temporary location.
Action - Ensure that the current user has required permissions to access the temporary location.
Additional information:
- Framework setup check failed on all the nodes
- Cause: Cause of the problem not available
- Action: User Action Not Available
Summary of the failed nodes
(computer name)
- Version of exectask could not be retrieved from node computer name
- Cause: Cause of Problem Not Available
- Action: User Action Not Available
I'm at my wit's end here. There's dozens of posts in Googleland about this error message but I have not found a solution that works for me. I'm running as a local admin on a clean, fresh install of Windows 7. I've done the net use. There's no Oracle services in the background getting in the way. What else is there to do?
Thanks in advance for anyone who can help.