Re: Permission denied starting up on Windows

Do you have sufficient rights on the mapped drive? Under what account are the Oracle services running? Does that account have rights to the mapped drive?

( BTW, why the mapped drive?)

"Dave Bender" <dave_at_benders-of-edina.com> wrote:

>I'm having trouble getting Oracle 8.1 installed and running on Windows 2000
>Server. The listener service (as well as other services) fail to start. I
>get a variety of error messages, but they all seem to have an "Error 5,
>Permission Denied" somewhere in them.
>
>I'm running as Administrator so I'm puzzled as to what permission I need
>that I don't have. Examples of the error messages are below. My system
>specs, etc. are:
>
> Windows 2000 Server (5.00.2195)
> Service Pack 2
>
> The Oracle Home directory is on a mapped drive.
>
>Any help would be appreciated.
>
>Dave
>
>
>======================
>
>The error messages:
>
>
>
>In Services, clicking on 'Start' for OracleOraHome81TNSListener results in a
>message box with:
> Could not start the OracleOraHome81TNSListenerservice on Local Computer.
> Error 5: Access is denied.
>
>
>Clicking on 'Start' for OracleOraHome81Agent results in a message box with:
> Could not start the OracleOraHome81Agent service on Local Computer.
> Error 5: Access is denied.
>
>
>The same happens if I try from the command line.
>
>
>LSNRCTL> start
>Starting tnslsnr: please wait...
>
>Failed to open service <OracleOraHome81TNSListener>, error 1060.
>Failed to start service, error 5.
>TNS-12536: TNS:operation would block
> TNS-12560: TNS:protocol adapter error
> TNS-00506: Operation would block
> 32-bit Windows Error: 997: Unknown error
>
Received on Fri Nov 22 2002 - 10:11:32 CST