I ran into the same error, can't remember how I fixed it , something to do
with Active Directory (Win2K). Your right it took alot of time, and
technet's advice was useless.
"Chris S" <cschofie_at_nospam.home.com> wrote in message
news:3a8f1d85.834500568_at_192.168.0.10...
> I was desparately trying to create a database using the database
> configuration wizard when I ran into this error at the '3%' mark of
> the creation process. My app was working fine on an older version of
> oracle (8.0.5) and I'd uninstalled, re-installed 8.1.6, then got this.
> Previously, the database was working fine.
>
> It turns out the issue was - this was a laptop, and was normally
> docked, and part of an NT domain. I was working on this laptop at
> home, and thus it was not docked, and not physically connected to the
> domain (but I was signing on to the domain, with cached credentials,
> as is our practice). Having read the various posts about this error,
> I tried docking it (docking station at home) - no luck, even with a
> docking station + ethernet card. I tried hooking it to my home
> network (to see if DHCP or DNS issues mattered). Finally, I rebooted
> and logged on to the local computer account, not the domain account,
> and ... it worked. Normally, even when not connected to our domain,
> our laptop users still sign onto the domain because of security
> issues, and so they get the same desktop, etc. But in this case, the
> act of signing on to the domain, which was not present, was the
> problem.
>
> Once I created the database, I logged off/logged back onto the domain
> account (which times out, of course, and thus signs you on with cached
> credentials) and the database / application worked just fine.
>
> So there is an anomaly in the create wizard, it seems. Wasted HOURS
> of my time!
>
>
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Received on Sun Feb 18 2001 - 20:47:25 CST
