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Hi Holger,
So I'm waiting with interests on your Answer.
But still the keyquestion is:
Does it run with Standard Edition or do I need Enterprise Edition???
Thomas
"Holger Baer" <holger.baer_at_science-computing.de> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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> Thomas Fricker wrote:
> > Hi,
> > Does anyone have experience in implementing Oracle 9i SR2 in a Microsoft
> > Active Directory Service?
> > What we want ist to authenticate our Oracle User with the passwords used
in
> > Active Directory Service.
> > We are planning to use Oracle 9i SR2 Standard Edition on W2000.
> >
> > Accordīng to Oracle Documentation it is necessary to license Oracle
Advanced
> > Security (which requires Oracle Enterprise Edition) to use Active
Directory
> > to manage an enterprise role. Since we want to manage only our users
> > 'globally' I wonder if this here also the case.
> >
> > Thanks for any reply.
> > Thomas Fricker
> >
> >
>
> Hi Thomas,
>
> I was very interested in your post, but we both where waiting in vain
> for an answer. But if I understand you correctly, all you want to do
> is to have externally authenticated users using the NTS authentication
> scheme.
>
> If I didn't got the documentation wrong, Oracle just uses the classic
> authentication method that was standard with NT up to version 4.
>
> This will still work with an Windows 2K Domain/AD environment, no matter
> in which mode (native or mixed) your Active Directory is working. At
> least this is my current information, as NT4 or samba can still be
> members in an AD Domain, whithout being AD aware.
>
> I might have the chance to test this scenario this week, if so I 'll be
> back to you on this topic.
>
>
> Best regards
>
> Holger
>
Received on Fri Feb 28 2003 - 02:24:33 CST