Re: Authentication problem

Haghkhah Majid wrote at 25-Nov-99 17:27:53 on the subject Authentication problem:

>Hello ,

>Does anybody know how can I let NT to do the authentiation of the
>login and passwords. I create a user in oracle and as authentication
>option, I choose External. But still I can not login to oracle. (The
>user login name is the same as NT user).

>What is the problem?

In order to connect with the same OS and Oracle username, you have to set

os_authent_prefix = ""

in your init file.

Maybe you have to call sqlplus with a '/' as parameter:

plus33w /
plus33 /

(Fill in the name of your SQL*Plus here :-)

Hope that helps,
Lothar

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