Re: ORA-12638: Credential retrieval failed

On Sun, 09 Oct 2005 14:07:44 -0400, Saurabh Srivastava interested us by writing:

>
> I recently installed Oracle 9i Database release 2
> (enterprise/standard/personal edition) on a Windowx XP machine. I installed
> the standard, general purpose edition and am having some problems getting it
> to work. Specifically, when I try to connect to the database (test
> connection) or log into SQL plus I get the following error message:
>
> ERROR:
> ORA-12638: Credential retrieval failed

From the 9iR2 Error Messages area at http://docs.oracle.com

"
TNS-12638 Credential retrieval failed

    Cause: The authentication service failed to retrieve the credentials

           of a user.

    Action: Enable tracing to determine the exact error. "

Determining the exact cause of the error, rather than guessing, sounds somewhat useful to me. <g>

To turn on tracing, you could refer to the "Net Services Administrator's Guide" or the "Net Services Reference Guide" found at http://download-west.oracle.com/docs/cd/B10501_01/nav/docindex.htm and available with your OTN userid/password.

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