I made sure that the file "oraclm32.dll" is in the expected place in my machine. The Microsoft ODBC for Oracle driver that I can see in my machine is version 2.575.1022.00(MSORCL32.dll).
I keep getting "Oracle Clients and networking components were not found". I am attaching a word doc here which will give the details of the odbc driver in my machine and the error message.
Now, in another machine, the oracle driver version is 2.573...... The db connection works just fine from there.
Please tell me what else I need to check. I do not really want to change my driver as it might affect the stability of some other app that might be using the same.