Re: Trust between Orcale in Unix with NT domain

As I said below, there is no way to use Windows authentication between Windows and Unix because Unix does not support Windows authentication.

One possible method to do what you want would be to use Kerberos.

                                          Rick

In article <69e9c64b.0204220737.65242dab_at_posting.google.com>, sandiyan_at_yahoo.co.uk says...
>
>cheers. I had a look at the technet it talks about establishing
>authentication between Oracle(on W2k) and another w2k machine - my
>requirement is Oracle(on Unix) and w2k machine.
>
>I have got Oracle 9i on Unix(on Solaris 2.8) and would like to connect
>a w2k machine using it's windows authentication method.
>
>So,
>I tried adding a user(<domainname>\<user>) on Oracle server and then
>tried to connect from the w2k machine but that failed.
>
>There are lot of pointers saying that;
>- SQLNET.ORA (on the server and client machines) needs to be set with
>some values - I think that is Oracle 8i related...
>- and etc..
>
>
>I am confused as to what the exact procedure is to get this working...
>
>Thanks all for your responses...
>Sandiyan...
>
>
>Rick Wessman <Rick.WessmanNO_SPAM_at_oracle.com> wrote in message
>news:<a9ojpr09iu_at_drn.newsguy.com>...
>> Not in the way that you suggest. However, you might be able to use Kerberos
>>authentication (available in 9i) to do what you want. However, since no database
>> or O/S versions were specified, I can't tell you for sure.
>>
>> Look on technet.oracle.com for documentation about Oracle Advanced Security.
>> That should tell if it is possible.
>>
>> Rick
>>
>> In article <69e9c64b.0204180803.3b7904bd_at_posting.google.com>,
>> sandiyan_at_yahoo.co.uk says...
>> >
>> >How do we do this..?
>> >Currently we have got SQL servers running with NT only authentication
>> >mode.
>> >Our application that sits on SQL server talks to Oracle server(under
>> >Unix). The conection propoerties(e.g. login/password) are stored in
>> >registy.
>> >
>> >In order to avoid storing password in registry, is there a way so that
>> >only login is stored in registry -i.e. passwords gets authenticated
>> >via some sort of trust ?
>> >
>> >Thanks,
>> >Sandiyan
>>
>> Rick Wessman
>> Oracle Corporation
>>
>> The opinions expressed above are mine and do not necessarily reflect
>> those of Oracle Corporation.

                                Rick Wessman
                                Oracle Corporation

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