Re: NT4 - Accessing local TCP/IP db starts up DUN

In article <943038197.25070.0.pluto.d4ee154e_at_news.demon.nl>, Sybrand Bakker <postmaster_at_sybrandb.demon.nl> writes
>Almost correct.
>That setting you are referring to is in the registry key defaultprovider (If
>I remember well).
>Oracle just uses that same key!
>
>Hth,

I've an hkey_local_machine\software\microsoft\rpc\securityservice\defaul tprovider with a value of "security.dll"

Any ideas what the correct setting should be?

Andy
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>Sybrand Bakker, Oracle DBA
>Fred G.Eisenberg <xeisenbrg_at_fast.net> wrote in message
>news:383589AE.285C_at_fast.net...
>> Andy Hardy wrote:
>> >
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > Sometimes when I start up an application that accesses my local Oracle
>> > 7.3 database via TCP/IP the MS Dial-Up Networking box appears and says
>> > that it cannot access my machine and asks whether it should dial a
>> > remote network.
>> >
>> > If I say 'No', the application starts as normal and my database is
>> > connected.
>> >
>> > Does this sound like an Oracle/SQL*Net problem or an NT problem?
>> >
>> > Either way, what is the fix?
>> >
>> > Andy
>> > P.S Running NT4 SP5, same problem existed under SP3
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>> > Andy Hardy. PGP key available on request
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>> A simialr thing can happen using IE to access the internet. There is a
>> setting in IE on how to connect to the internet (local network, modem,
>> etc). I would suspect that there is a similar setting in the
>> Oracle/SQL*Net so that it is looking for the connection over the modem.
>> When you say "no", all is OK because the LAN is there and working. Look
>> around within the settings of the Oracle Client for something along
>> these lines.
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