Re: Several Basic Oracle Questions

Mark,

> 1) Let's start with the basic communications setup (I'm not a
> networking wiz). We're a Netware 4.1 shop. This will be our first NT
> Server box. I've heard conflicting stories on how the actual
> connection to the database takes place. My assumption is that if I'm
> going to have 100 people logged into the database then I would need to
> have 100 user accounts for these people in NT. Some people have told
> me that I won't need to maintain user accounts in NT. What's the true
> story?

You can set up a SINGLE user account on the NT that all 100 PC's are configured to use.

> 2) Assuming that my users will be logging into NT, can Oracle somehow
> link to NT security? I'm pretty sure that Microsoft SQL Server does
> this. I don't want to through a bunch more logins in front of my
> users.

It's your choice. If you go with my answer to #1 above, you might want to have security in Oracle, in the form of distinct user names, passwords, priveleges. If security is NOT an issue, you can set up a single user/password in Oracle & let all users have the same access.

> 3) Is there any problem with having both the 32-bit and 16-bit
> SQL*Net on the machines at the same time? These will be Windows 95
> clients. The front-end apps will be a combination of VB 4.0, Internet
> Explorer 3.0 and Access 2.0.

Don't know...I'd like to see the answer to this one too.

Hope this helps,

Jim

Jim Pistrang
JP Computer Resources Received on Thu Jun 13 1996 - 00:00:00 CEST