Re: Default logins for 8i Release 2 under Windows NT

Sybrand Bakker wrote:

> AFAIK
>
> you need to have
> sqlnet.authentication_services=(NTS)
>
> in your sqlnet.ora
>
> Your sqlnet docs you definitely contain info about this.
> In the past it was necessary to actually login on the server, this was
> accomplished by sharing out a drive on the database server. The sqlnet.ora
> mechanism should have replaced that.
>

I took at my sqlnet.ora and that line was in there but commented out. I uncommented it and for good measure I bounced the database. Still no luck.

I finally opened a TAR and got back a reply that configuring this on NT is tricky because it doesn't work in a manner similar to UNIX. I tried the various things they suggested and none of them have worked.

Apparently on NT, the domain name comes into play, but the information I received in the TAR response was a bit hazy because it tended to suggest that there isn't any particular way that you can really discover what username will be passed in by the OS. The response was further confusing because it implied that when OPS$ is set for os_authent_prefix it changes the way that the os passes the userid in - and if that is true then the database is changing the way that the os operates just by changing the value of an oracle parameter.

I'm still waiting for a further reply on the TAR, but this has become very disconcerting since there doesn't seem to be any real answer and I could spend the rest of my life experimenting with it and never come up with the right combination because I'd never be guaranteed to make the one correct guess that would be correct. Received on Sat Sep 02 2000 - 15:10:29 CDT