I have built an application using Oracle Forms and Reports and now need to
install it on a couple user machines for demo/pilot. There is no Forms
Server available to be used for installation, nor is there anyone available
to set one up so need to install the forms and reports runtime engine on the
client machines which run win2k.

It was suggested to me that I could locate the ifrun60.exe on a shared drive
and just run it from there, without going through any oracle install process
on the client. When I do this I get the message:

"message file p:\orant\dbs\fmcus.msb not found "-- This file is in my
\orant\forms60 directory and not in the one where it is looking. The
forms runtime runs fine on the machine in which forms was originally
installed, (the one that has "shared" its drive).

This sounds to me like some setup needs to happen on the client. Does
anyone know if I have to use the oracle installer to install the forms
runtime engine on the client or if I can simply "run" ifrun60.exe from the
shared drive? It may be something as simple as forms environment
variables, needing setting. I don't know. Is anyone else running the forms
runtime engine from a shared drive and did they have to do anything special
on the client?

tnx