9i instance automatic-startup does not work with windows-domain

Hi all.

On a customers db-server, we have a single Oracle service that should be started automatically when the system boots. This used to work well, but the machine has been moved into the customers windows-domain, and the instance won't be started automatically by the windows-service anymore.
- Note that the Windows-service as such is started and running.

• Manually starting via sqlplus & startup; works OK.
• startup via oradim ... also does _not_ work when the PC is in the domain.

The registry settings and config files seem to be correct and no obvious messages are reported to the log files (sqlnet.log, oradim.log)

After hours of trying, we moved the machine out of the windows-domain again, and - voila - the automatic startup works again.

Are there known issues with automatic startup and Windows-domains on Oracle 9i 2 ?

The strange thing is, there are other PCs with _exactly_ the same setup as this, that also are in a domain, where it works.

Maybe something to do with active directory domains vs. NT domains ?

hope someone can shed light on this,
thanks in advance,
best regards,
Martin Trappel Received on Tue Jun 21 2005 - 10:31:29 CDT