SQL*NET configuration

Huh !

OCI a lot flexible than Pro*C.

anyways I have another(could be dumn) question about configuring the SQL*NET files. We use NFS and the server account is not on NFS but local to a machine though the server machine is hooked to the NFS.

I have the sqlplus installed on another client machine which is also on the NFS but the problem is when I try to logon to the database from the client machine, it looks for an entry in the local passwd file and obviously it can't find an entry as it is on a different machine. And thus doesn't allow me to connect to the database but gives me this error.

Enter user-name: system/manager_at_TEST
ERROR: ORA-07268: szguns: getpwuid error.

which means

07268, 00000, "szguns: getpwuid error."

// *Cause:  Getpwuid() could not find an entry in the passwd file for a
//          user.
// *Action: Add an entry for the user in the passwd file. 

Now I made an UNIX account entry into the local passwd file and it works fine.

What is the cause for this problem and obviously how do I fix this ? I surely can't make entries to all the local passwd files on all the machines trying to connect to the database.

Please send mail to kodali_at_coe.missouri.edu and mail bounces if you respond to the posting due to various reasons.

thank you.

Ravi

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