Crystal Reports in Vista using Oracle - can't find database

[littleress]

has anyone had any problems using CRXI in Vista? Our database is in oracle 10g and for some reason crystal will not find that database in Crystal. I just got my new laptop use Vista Ultimate. It's able to find the oracle database when I use Toad - but Crystal can't seem to find it. Any thoughts, suggestions or ideas? Thanks!

 

[MJRBIM]

CR-XI needs a minimum of the Oracle-9 client pre-installed when you deploy CR-XI.

Was the Oracle-9 client deployed locally on your laptop before you installed CR-XI...?

 

[littleress]

yes. we installed oracle first, then toad and I can use toad and get to every schema and table and update perfectly. So I know that the database is there. But for some reason when we try to set up the repository it can't connect to the database. We did it the next day on an xp desktop with ease. Seems odd. Biggest issue is that I use my laptop to travel so it's hard to not be able to connect - good that I can hit the database, but sometimes it's hard to not be able to make the report updates on the fly since I have over 400 clients that all use the same reports!! Any thoughts on a setting that I may need to change on my computer? Thank you!!!

 

[MJRBIM]

CR-XI (Release 2) wasn't supported on Vista until "SERVICE PACK 2".

What Service Pack level are you trying to run...?