From: "Marty Grinstead" Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.server References: <68326679.0108081412.1bd06e9c@posting.google.com> Subject: Re: Oracle Enterprise Manager - Preferred Credentials for a Node Lines: 30 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2615.200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 Message-ID: X-Trace: wcLSvJ2zh4aap4GXgNKmt769sbumq9+gt7O2t6Ch0sDDxNzAwMXcxcLcxsPS0qWXlt7SwsrSs4eV!0sDCwsPSwMLIw8bIxsXSoram X-Abuse-Info: Please forward ALL headers when reporting abuse. X-Complaints-To: abuse@bb.directv.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2001 20:14:47 PDT Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2001 23:14:16 -0000 Hi Adam, You should be able to use a domain user on NT 4.0. You do have to grant "Logon as a batch job" locally on each server, to the domain user. We did some testing, and we were successful. Good luck, Marty Adam Rothberg wrote in message news:68326679.0108081412.1bd06e9c@posting.google.com... > In OEM 2.1, in Preferred Credentials, does the node's credentials need > to be a LOCAL user (in the local domain of node) or can it also be a > DOMAIN user. I am getting mixed results... > > On Windows 2000 Advanced Server, it seems that I can successfully use > either a local or domain user (with the "log on as a batch job" right) > for the node's credentials. > > On Windows NT Server 4.0 (SP5), it seems that only a local user will > work. A domain user comes back with the notorious "VNI-2015 : > Authentication Error" message for exact same job as when the local > user was used successfully. Both the local and domain user are > Administrators of the node. I would like to use a domain user so I > don't need to keep track of several local users, one for each db > server. > > Can anyone shed some light on this? Thanks.