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Ian Bainbridge schrieb:
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> I will be using Oracle quite soon, and my one question is:-
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> How does Oracle authenticate access.
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> 1. Internal authentication
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> 2. NT Authentication
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> 3. Both??
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> We have a WAN and require users to login from various places that are not
> necessarily users on the NT server, I can I authenticate without having to
> set up the users on the NT server??
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> Thanks
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> Ian
Hi Ian,
Oracle runs as a service on NT. To use oracle you don't need to be logged into the NT-server. Create the necessary users inside the oracle db and let oracle authenticate the users. No need to pay MS more than necessary (smallest NT-license package 5 users).
HTH
Matthias
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Received on Wed Jan 20 1999 - 02:42:44 CST