Re: NT OS Authentication

Rob:

This has been my experience also. It appears that you need to acquire a security token first from NT before Oracle's OS authentication works on this platform. By mapping to a drive on your database server (or any share for that matter), the user is acquiring a security token and Oracle's OS authentication works as advertised.

Steve Nagrabski
SNAGRABSKI_at_PRODIGY.NET Robert Edgar <robedgar_at_hkstar.com> wrote in article <640abf$5df1_at_news.hk.linkage.net>...
> We have set up 7.3 and NT to let our users use OS Authentication to avoid
> having to log in twice... nad it works .... well sort of..............
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> It appears that to b eable to log in we need to map a drive on to the
> server machine and have that drive active .
> ie it appears you must be "logged on " to the server (rather than just
 the
> domain) in order for OS Authentication to work.
> Example I log in to NT on my work station then run srvmgr as connect /
 @xxxx
> and it comes back "invalid password" ... open file manager click on a
 drive
> mapped to the server switch back to srvmgr type the same connect string
 and
> ....... you are connected!!!
>
> Is this a requirement of OS Authentication (that you need to map a drive
 to
> the machine and be logged on to it???)
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> Rob
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Received on Tue Nov 11 1997 - 00:00:00 CST