Once you install the Virtualbox DPK on a windows host, installing the peopletools client is often simple but could be confusing.
The DPK once installed properly with guest additions should create a samba shared folder of the PeopleTools shared folder.
For this installation the host was Windows 10 and DPK was installed with a Bridged-mode network adaptor.
1. On your windows machine file Explorer, go to \\IP_address, it should open the shared folder on the virtual machine. once this is verified, map this as a network folder via Command line
(use Admin mode to map this drive, when the tools install batch file is run, it creates registry entries and hence the batch file need to be run in Admin mode. Apparently on windows 10 UAC is activated by default and a network drive mapped by a user isn't available to the admin and vice versa, to be able to run the tools install batch successfully the network drive need to be mapped as admin)
2. open command prompt as admin and use the command:
net use DRIVE: \\ip_address\tools_client
3. move to the network drive and run the SetupPTClient.bat -l, it will install the oracle client as well as tools client on your C:\drive. (at the prompt for the batch file prompt, say Y for the installing Update manager question)
4. update the tnsnames.ora (connection information available in the log of tools install batch execution)
5. Once the batch file execution is complete, navigate to the tools folder it copied on to the C: drive and update the PSCFG.exe with install workstation option to complete the app designer.
The DPK once installed properly with guest additions should create a samba shared folder of the PeopleTools shared folder.
For this installation the host was Windows 10 and DPK was installed with a Bridged-mode network adaptor.
1. On your windows machine file Explorer, go to \\IP_address, it should open the shared folder on the virtual machine. once this is verified, map this as a network folder via Command line
(use Admin mode to map this drive, when the tools install batch file is run, it creates registry entries and hence the batch file need to be run in Admin mode. Apparently on windows 10 UAC is activated by default and a network drive mapped by a user isn't available to the admin and vice versa, to be able to run the tools install batch successfully the network drive need to be mapped as admin)
2. open command prompt as admin and use the command:
net use DRIVE: \\ip_address\tools_client
3. move to the network drive and run the SetupPTClient.bat -l, it will install the oracle client as well as tools client on your C:\drive. (at the prompt for the batch file prompt, say Y for the installing Update manager question)
4. update the tnsnames.ora (connection information available in the log of tools install batch execution)
5. Once the batch file execution is complete, navigate to the tools folder it copied on to the C: drive and update the PSCFG.exe with install workstation option to complete the app designer.