Path: dp-news.maxwell.syr.edu!spool.maxwell.syr.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news-han1.dfn.de!news-fra1.dfn.de!newsfeed.ision.net!newsfeed2.easynews.net!ision!news.weisnix.org!news.musoftware.de!feeder.z74.net!news.z74.net!sn-ams-06!sn-xt-ams-05!sn-post-ams-02!sn-post-ams-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail From: Sybrand Bakker Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.server Subject: Re: Can't connect to Oracle after domain join Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2006 22:12:51 +0200 Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com Message-ID: <5ok532lj3ormang290pu1irfe1nchh27n1@4ax.com> Reply-To: sybrandb@hccnet.verwijderdit.nl References: X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 3.3/32.846 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@supernews.com Lines: 31 Xref: dp-news.maxwell.syr.edu comp.databases.oracle.server:264844 On Tue, 4 Apr 2006 19:32:42 +0200, "Massimo" wrote: >Hi to all; I have an Oracle 8 database running on a Windows Server 2003 >computer which is a stand-alone server; the Oracle DB works perfectly. > >I'm in the process of building a domain and moving all servers and clients >into it, but when I join that server to the domain, Oracle stops working. >Actually, it's working fine (services are up and running), but any client >application (including those running on the server itself) can't no longer >connect to it; SQLPlus gives an error of "shared memory realm doesn't >exist". If I remove the computer from the domain and make it a stand-alone >server again, everything resumes working. > >The domain is a Windows 2003 Active Directory domain, and I think the >problem can somewhat be related to the DNS suffix the computer gets >automatically after joining the domain; before this, it didn't have any DNS >suffix. The hostname and the IP address of the server didn't change, anyway. > >Can someone please help me with this? > >Thanks > > >Massimo Oracle 8 is desupported and not certified by Oracle against Win2003. So this means you are on your own. -- Sybrand Bakker, Senior Oracle DBA