From oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org Fri Oct 1 11:43:57 2004 Return-Path: Received: from air189.startdedicated.com (root@localhost) by orafaq.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id i91GhuI26582 for ; Fri, 1 Oct 2004 11:43:56 -0500 X-ClientAddr: 206.53.239.180 Received: from turing.freelists.org (freelists-180.iquest.net [206.53.239.180]) by air189.startdedicated.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id i91GhuI26577 for ; Fri, 1 Oct 2004 11:43:56 -0500 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by turing.freelists.org (Avenir Technologies Mail Multiplex) with ESMTP id 4C93872D769; Fri, 1 Oct 2004 11:50:00 -0500 (EST) Received: from turing.freelists.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (turing [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 18979-06; Fri, 1 Oct 2004 11:50:00 -0500 (EST) Received: from turing (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by turing.freelists.org (Avenir Technologies Mail Multiplex) with ESMTP id B606F72D81D; Fri, 1 Oct 2004 11:49:59 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: From: Smiley John - IL To: "'sol.beach@gmail.com'" , oracle-l@freelists.org Subject: RE: Oracle on Windoze Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2004 11:48:08 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-archive-position: 10562 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org Errors-To: oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org X-original-sender: SMILEYJ@tusc.com Precedence: normal Reply-To: SMILEYJ@tusc.com X-list: oracle-l X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at freelists.org I had the same problem recently. Try setting the LOCAL environment variable to your SID name. John Smiley --- snip --- I'm a *nix command line type DBA who has next to no experience directly supporting Oracle on Windoze. I get logged onto the DB server system as "administrator" & this account supposedly was used to install Oracle. However when I open up a command window & invoke SQL*PLUS and then / as sysdba The error message reports I have insufficient privileges. How do I get into this DB as "SYS"? -- http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l