Re: Can't connect to Oracle after domain join

On Tue, 4 Apr 2006 19:32:42 +0200, "Massimo" <barone_at_mclink.it> wrote:

>Hi to all; I have an Oracle 8 database running on a Windows Server 2003
>computer which is a stand-alone server; the Oracle DB works perfectly.
>
>I'm in the process of building a domain and moving all servers and clients
>into it, but when I join that server to the domain, Oracle stops working.
>Actually, it's working fine (services are up and running), but any client
>application (including those running on the server itself) can't no longer
>connect to it; SQLPlus gives an error of "shared memory realm doesn't
>exist". If I remove the computer from the domain and make it a stand-alone
>server again, everything resumes working.
>
>The domain is a Windows 2003 Active Directory domain, and I think the
>problem can somewhat be related to the DNS suffix the computer gets
>automatically after joining the domain; before this, it didn't have any DNS
>suffix. The hostname and the IP address of the server didn't change, anyway.
>
>Can someone please help me with this?
>
>Thanks
>
>
>Massimo

Oracle 8 is desupported and not certified by Oracle against Win2003. So this means you are on your own.

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Sybrand Bakker, Senior Oracle DBA