Oracle Express Remote Installation - Error 1628
744874Jan 6 2010 — edited Jan 18 2010Hi
I'm currently getting error 1628 during the installation of Oracle Express on a machines with Windows XP SP2.
The installation of Oracle Express is being performed silently using a patch management/software distribution tool such as BigFix. The installation of this product is initiated when a non-admin user accepts an action from the patch management server to install Oracle Express. When the action is accepted OracleXEUniv.exe installer executes as the LOCAL SYSTEM account and NOT the logged in user. Again this user is a domain user but does not have local admin privileges. While this approach does NOT work for a non-admin user, it does work for a user with local admin privileges.
On a related note ... I was able to test the installation of OracleExpress using the patch management server while no one was logged into the machine. The installation ran as the LOCAL SYSTEM account and was successful.
Can someone explain what level of privileges is required by the Oracle Express installer, why would Oracle Express fail to install while logged in as a non-admin user if the installation process shows that OracleXEUniv.exe is being executed as the LOCAL SYSTEM (reported through theTask Manager)
Thank you in advanced.
Jose