Re: Remote Database Link

Thanks Paul,

The SQLNET.ora Authentication_Services setting may be the issue. I won't have an opportunity to check before this evening, but it will be the FIRST thing that I look at. Yes, I am authenticating a a member of ORA_DBA, AND I had been connecting as sysdba. However, I had tried it as both a normal user and sysdba.

I also just realized that their is also a DEFAULT_DOMAIN setting in the SQLNET.ora file that MAY not be set correctly either. It should be, but I don't recall if the machine was originally configured while in the same Domain. I don't know what effect if any that this might have?

Thanks again for the input, and I'll give this a "shot" this evening.

Lynn :-)

"Paul Drake" <paled_at_home.com> wrote in message news:3B3AB37E.3D788F4C_at_home.com...
> "Mr. Lynn Moorhead" wrote:
> >
> > I get a message like "linkname attaches to linkname", which is obviously
> > where I want it attached. However, it doesn't actually appear to be
> > functioning. I have successfully created a "Remote Database Link" from
 the
> > Windows 2000 machine to the Windows NT 4.0 machine (actually from two
> > different Win2k machines to the NT 4.0 machine), but I cannot seem to
 create
> > it in the opposite direction. It has been suggested to me by a friend
 that
> > it could be a privileges issue or some sort of Authentication difference
> > between 2000 and NT 4.0. I've "dotted all the I's and crossed all the
 T's"
> > so to speak, but I must have missed some ADDITIONAL requirement when
 trying
> > to go from an older OS to a newer one. It seemed like such a simple
> > question, but I haven't found anyone who has done it or had a need to do
 it
> > in this manner.
> >
> > I'm trying to get approval to upgrade this "questionable" machine to
 Win2K
> > which will make this all irrelevant, but I'm still interested in the
 answer
> > in case I encounter this again in the future. ANY HELP would be greatly
> > appreciated.
> >
> > Lynn :-)
> >
>
> init.ora:
> global_names = true
>
> sqlnet.ora:
> SQLNET.AUTHENTICATION_SERVICES= (NTS) -- are you authenticating as a
> member of ORA_DBA group?
> NAMES.DIRECTORY_PATH= (TNSNAMES, HOSTNAME, ONAMES) -- might you have
> other naming methods in use?
>
> just 3 ideas of places that could go wrong.
> connect to each database as a user, not using "/ as sysdba".
>
> hth,
>
> Paul
>
Received on Thu Jun 28 2001 - 07:09:31 CDT