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From: Frank van Bortel <frank.van.bortel@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.misc
Subject: Re: ORA-12638: Credential retrieval failed
Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2005 22:02:06 +0200
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Saurabh Srivastava wrote:
> Hello Everyone,
> 
> I recently installed Oracle 9i Database release 2 
> (enterprise/standard/personal edition) on a Windowx XP machine. I installed 
> the standard, general purpose edition and am having some problems getting it 
> to work. Specifically, when I try to connect to the database (test 
> connection) or log into SQL plus I get the following error message:

you were logged on to your domain, at work.
Now you are not.
And you installed Oracle as domain user, not as local administrator.

Which of the above is true?

-- 
Regards,
Frank van Bortel

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