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Re: ORA-12638: Credential retrieval failed

From: Frank van Bortel <frank.van.bortel_at_gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2005 22:02:06 +0200
Message-ID: <diegrs$jgo$1@news4.zwoll1.ov.home.nl>


Saurabh Srivastava wrote:
> Hello Everyone,
>
> 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:

you were logged on to your domain, at work. Now you are not.
And you installed Oracle as domain user, not as local administrator.

Which of the above is true?

-- 
Regards,
Frank van Bortel

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Received on Mon Oct 10 2005 - 15:02:06 CDT

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