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Re: ORA-12631: Username retrieval failed

From: Rick Wessman <Rick.WessmanNO_SPAM_at_NoOrSaPcAlMe.com>
Date: 6 Aug 2003 14:20:03 -0700
Message-ID: <bgrre3023v1@drn.newsguy.com>


It sounds like either NDS (Novell Directory Service) was selected as an authentication method by accident during installation or the sqlnet.ora file was modified incorrectly.

                                   Rick

In article <20030729121907.28155.00000516_at_mb-m24.news.cs.com>, RgrSoucy says...
>
>This problem was finally resolved by me updating the following line in the
>sqlnet.ora file from:
>
>SQLNET.AUTHENTICATION_SERVICES= (NDS)
>
>To:
>
>SQLNET.AUTHENTICATION_SERVICES= (NONE)
>
>Then everything worked again...
>

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                                Rick Wessman
                                Oracle Corporation
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Received on Wed Aug 06 2003 - 16:20:03 CDT

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