RE: Active Directory question

I've never tried it, but have questions for you anyway: 8^)

So you want your clients to query AD for tns connect params a la' OID?

Or do you have OID set up & you want to add oracle db info to it, so you can synch OID w/ AD without losing your database info?

If the latter, I trust you've seen metalink note 233096.1? http://metalink.oracle.com/metalink/plsql/ml2_documents.showDocument?p_database_id=NOT&p_id=233096.1

Have you tried the Active Directory Schema snap-in for MMC?

See:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;320337

for details on the latter.

I *think* that should let you define new objects. I'd expect that to not be for the faint of heart tho...

HTH, -Roy

Roy Pardee
Programmer/Analyst/DBA
SWFPAC Lockheed Martin IT
Extension 8487

-----Original Message-----
From: DENNIS WILLIAMS [mailto:DWILLIAMS_at_LIFETOUCH.COM] Sent: Monday, July 21, 2003 8:25 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: RE: Active Directory question

I did not receive any replies to this posting. Does that mean that nobody has connected Oracle to Active Directory? Has anyone tried and given up on this?

-----Original Message-----
Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2003 1:42 PM
To: 'ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com'

We are trying to configure an Oracle LDAP connection to Microsoft Active Directory. This is so a client machine can get the connection information
(an alternative to tnsnames.ora or Oracle Names) and connect to an Oracle9i
database on Sun Solaris.

    Does anyone know how you create the container called Oracle Context Structure in Active Directory? My Active Directory administrator tells me this is not like a normal AD container. We've read the documents and are confused on this point. Thanks.

Dennis Williams
DBA, 80%OCP, 100% DBA
Lifetouch, Inc.
dwilliams_at_lifetouch.com

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