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Check to see how the service logs on. From Control Panel, choose
Services. Find the service and then press the Startup button. Make sure
you have the Log On as System Account button selected.
HTH,
Brian
jeremycdba_at_my-deja.com wrote:
>
> I'm unable to start the OracleStartSID service.
>
> When I try as a local administrator, who is in
> the ORA_SID_DBA AND ORA_SID_OPER groups, to start
> it from control panel/services the error 'cannot
> start service due to logon error' is returned.
> When I try from the command line using
> 'oradim80...' the error 'need dba password' or
> something similar is in the oradim80.log file.
>
> I think it's because we've set up the services
> without a password so that we can connect to
> server manager without a password. We've set up
> ORA_SID_DBA AND ORA_SID_OPER groups and the other
> settings required to get this working and it
> works fine when connected as the user oracle who
> is in these groups.
>
> The problem is that we'd like to use ARCSERVE to
> do the cold backups and we'd like to start the
> service afterwards using the dos command 'NET
> START OracleServiceSID'. Now I believe that
> ARCSERVE doesn't run as an NT user and so cannot
> run scripts as administrator (if it could we
> could start the db by connecting to server
> manager as sysoper, this I've tried and it works)
> but ARCSERVE can start services, though not in
> this case.
>
> We're running NT 4 and Oracle 8.0.5. Any help
> appreciated.
>
> Thanks
> Jeremy Cope
>
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Received on Tue Nov 09 1999 - 08:02:48 CST