Make sure you have read/write access to the directory on the NT box where
the INITsid.ora file is located. This way you can change the instance
parameters. You will also need to reference this same file when attempting
to restart the instance.
--
Thomas W. Vanya
Oracle and OracleRdb Database Administrator
Eastman Chemical Company
Dawood Subedar <dsubedar_at_netcom.ca> wrote in article
<01bc7133$3232ebc0$d95ab5cf_at_subedar>...
> I have setup Enterprise Manager on an NT 4.0 workstation to administer
> database instances on a Solaris 2.5. I have used the orapwd utility to
> setup the orapw<sid> files under $ORACLE_HOME/dbs.
>
> I am able to access all instances via Enterpise Manager. Logging in as
> SYSDBA I am able to shutdown a running instance from Enterpise Manager.
> However I cannot write the initialization parameters to a file on the
local
> (NT) directory. The file is always saved as 0 bytes.
>
> I cannot also startup the instance from Enterprise Manager (probably
> because there are no initialization parameters and therefore remote login
> password file not set to EXCLUSIVE?). The startup fails with the message
-
> MGR cannot start database and ORA 1031 - insufficient privileges.
>
> Thanks in advance for any help.
>
Received on Wed Jun 04 1997 - 00:00:00 CDT
