From: Brian Peasland Subject: Re: NT Permissions for Oracle database Date: 2000/03/03 Message-ID: <38BFC444.E838BB28@edcmail.cr.usgs.gov>#1/1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: news@igsrsparc2.er.usgs.gov (Janet Walz (GD) x6739) X-Nntp-Posting-Host: edcntw241.cr.usgs.gov References: X-Accept-Language: en Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Organization: Raytheon Systems Mime-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.server > I have installed Oracle on an NT Server and the only way the instance > will start is if the NTFS drive which contains the datafiles and control > files has full control assigned to Everyone. Administrator permission is > not good enough even though Oracle is started by the NT Administrator. Alan, Who installed your Oracle database? Was it someone who has administrator rights local to the machine? That makes a difference. I've never had to change permissions to full control for everyone to get Oracle started. HTH, Brian -- ======================================== Brian Peasland Raytheons Systems at USGS EROS Data Center These opinions are my own and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of my company! ========================================