Re: Q: what is ORA-12663

gennick_at_worldnet.att.net (Jonathan Gennick) writes:

> On 30 Apr 1998 14:02:12 -0700, David Doll
> <djd_at_saul10.u.washington.edu> wrote:
>
> >Hello, I have Oracle 8 client installed on my NT workstation and I am able
> >to connect to our server on a sun workstation running Sunos 5.5.1 and the
> >server version in either 7.1 or 7.2.3. I can do selects on tables but not
> >a desc. For example when I do a desc tableName, I get the following
> >error: ORA-12663: Services required by client not available on the
> >server.
>
>
> I have Oracle 8.0.3 on my NT workstation, and Oracle 7.3 on
> both NT and Novell servers. I get the same error. Oracle
> changed the implementation of DESCRIBE beginning with
> Oracle8. I forget exactly what they did, but they didn't get
> the backward's compatibility right.
>
> To my knowledge, there's nothing you can do except to
> install both SQL*Plus 8.0 and 3.3 on your workstation, and
> use SQL*Plus 8.0 only when connecting to an 8.0 database.
>
> Jonathan

This problem has to do with the Advanced Networking Option. As a guess, the sqlnet.ora on the client side is probably configured to require encryption or checksumming but the server side doesn't have it available.

There are two things that you can do: either configure the server so that encryption or checksumming is available or disable encryption or checksumming on the client.

                                Rick
                                Rick Wessman
                                Distributed Data Security
                                Oracle Corporation
                                rwessman_at_us.oracle.com

-- Received on Thu May 07 1998 - 09:10:22 CDT