Path: news.netfront.net!ctu-peer!news.nctu.edu.tw!newshub.sdsu.edu!postnews.google.com!i7g2000prf.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: bdbafh Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.server Subject: Re: ORA-12640: Authentication adapter initialization failed Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 06:44:49 -0800 (PST) Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 33 Message-ID: <61babd5c-d525-4f50-9a95-b20e04dd2f2f@i7g2000prf.googlegroups.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: 137.237.113.133 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1202827489 18136 127.0.0.1 (12 Feb 2008 14:44:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 14:44:49 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: i7g2000prf.googlegroups.com; posting-host=137.237.113.133; posting-account=0toJfgkAAAB7KgOxj8byjWUKgIYjMLCa User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.12) Gecko/20080201 Firefox/2.0.0.12,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Xref: news.netfront.net comp.databases.oracle.server:182361 On Feb 12, 8:49 am, James.R.Cartwri...@gmail.com wrote: > Hi - I'm trying to connect to a 10g (Rel 2) database server through a > VPN connection. When I try to connect to the server using sqlplus - I > get the following error: > ORA-12640: Authentication adapter initialization failed > > However, when I try to connect using sqldeveloper it can connect. > > I'm trying to get a 3rd party application to connect to the database > server, and right now it is getting the same error as sqlplus. > > There are multiple oracle applications in this environment, so I can't > change the sqlnet.ora file. Right now it has a line that says: > SQLNET.AUTHENTICATION_SERVICES= (BEQ, TCPS,KERBEROS5, NTS) > > So I know I need to do something to make sure the clients can > authenticate through one of those mechanisms. I thought I was good > since I set up an account on the server that matches the userid I use > to make the VPN connection, but I'm obviously missing something else. > Do I need to make a change to the sqlnet.ora on the server side? > > thanks! Can you connect to the remote database if you set SQLNET.AUTHENTICATION_SERVICES=(NONE) and use a database username/password for authentication? How many Oracle homes are installed on the client desktop and what version(s)? -bdbafh