Re: orace10G XE WindowsXp and Zonealarm Pro

Robert A. Reissaus wrote:
> Hi guys.
> I have installed a oracle10 Express Edition on my Windowsxp. On the
> system I am running ZoneAlarm Pro with rather obvious adjusted privacy
> settings as follows:
> 3rd party cookies are blocked.
> private header information is disabled.
> popup/under ads are blocked
> animations are blocked
> script execution is blocked ( vbscript etc).
>
> As a result I can NOT logon to the database using SYSTEM ( or any
> other user for that matter).
>
> The ONLY i can log in is to remove ANY initial blockage in my
> firewall. This is of course totally unacceptable. Now I have tried to
> tweak the firewall settings in such a way that ports used by oracle
> are allowed, but that doesn't work. It *looks* like oracle circumvents
> the firewall entirely.
>
> Anybody any idea?
> Robert A. Reissaus

You don't provide any proof for this wild guess. As you don't provide any specifics as to what is wrong (what does 'Can not logon'? Any error message), and you already seem to know the cause, *you* are probably the 'expert'; that should resolve that problem, preferably without posting here.
You could of course always install the Enterprise Edition. Apart from that you could dump ZoneAlarm Pro for some decent piece firewall software.
After all, you got XE for free.
One Dutch proverb says 'One shouldn't look a horse, which was given to you, in its mouth'

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Sybrand Bakker
Senior Oracle DBA

Senior Oracle DBA