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From: bdbafh@gmail.com
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Subject: Re: Can't connect to Oracle after domain join
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check the oradim.log.
It should help to provide info regarding why the instance is not being
started, when the OS service is started.
As you didn't include anything other than "Oracle 8" I cannot speculate
where exactly the oradim.log will be located.

-bdbafh