Re: Oracle 8i client installation on Windows 2000

From: Spammy Nono <spambust_at_localhost.zz>
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 22:12:42 +0200
Message-ID: <Prvw5.10076$Fl2.82947@nntpserver.swip.net>

"Sudip Chakraborty" <sudip_at_inductis.com> wrote in message news:8ptpl0$e1m0l$1_at_ID-45409.news.cis.dfn.de...
> Hi,
>
> I have a problem with installing Oracle 8i client on my Windows 2000
> Professional workstation. I have both a local account and a domain
account.
> When I login to my domain account and install Oracle 8i client everything
> works fine and I am able to create a local naming method and connect to a
> remote Oracle 8i database server. When I login to my LOCAL account and
> install Oracle 8i client, the installation seems to go fine but when I try
> to create a local naming method and test the connection it says
"Credential
> retrieval failed".
>
> Has anyone run into this problem and if so have you found a way to fix
this?
>
> Thanks.
> Sudip
>

It probably has to do with external authentication... I don't know why/when Oracle changed this to be default method. Look in sqlnet.ora for sqlnet.<something>=(NTS). Set it to (NONE) or comment out the line and try again.

Regards
/Fad Received on Fri Sep 15 2000 - 15:12:42 CDT