Re: Oracle Enterprise Manager - Preferred Credentials for a Node

That worked. Thanks. My problem was that I had set the user's Log On As A Batch Job right at the "master" domain level (the NT domain in which the machine belonged), not in the machine's *local* domain. Once I did it in the local machine's domain, everything worked fine.

"Marty Grinstead" <marty_grinstead_at_hotmail.com> wrote in message news:<Henc7.6755$33.1054793_at_newsrump.sjc.telocity.net>...
> Hi Adam,
>
> You should be able to use a domain user on NT 4.0. You do have to grant
> "Logon as a batch job" locally on each server, to the domain user. We did
> some testing, and we were successful.
>
> Good luck,
> Marty
>
> Adam Rothberg <adamr1000_at_hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:68326679.0108081412.1bd06e9c_at_posting.google.com...
> > In OEM 2.1, in Preferred Credentials, does the node's credentials need
> > to be a LOCAL user (in the local domain of node) or can it also be a
> > DOMAIN user. I am getting mixed results...
> >
> > On Windows 2000 Advanced Server, it seems that I can successfully use
> > either a local or domain user (with the "log on as a batch job" right)
> > for the node's credentials.
> >
> > On Windows NT Server 4.0 (SP5), it seems that only a local user will
> > work. A domain user comes back with the notorious "VNI-2015 :
> > Authentication Error" message for exact same job as when the local
> > user was used successfully. Both the local and domain user are
> > Administrators of the node. I would like to use a domain user so I
> > don't need to keep track of several local users, one for each db
> > server.
> >
> > Can anyone shed some light on this? Thanks.
Received on Thu Aug 09 2001 - 19:51:46 CDT