Re: Authentication Problem
- From: "Stefan Knecht" <knecht.stefan@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: Muhammad.Khan@xxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 08:49:24 +0100
As far as I remember on windows the username has to be "OPS$<Client Machine
Name>\<Username>".
To be sure, as Jack suggested, check v$session to get the exact form of your
username.
Stefan
On Jan 31, 2008 2:18 AM, Khan, Muhammad S <Muhammad.Khan@xxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Gurus.
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> Its hard to believe what I'm stuck at here right now! I'm testing the OS
> authentication in my test environment with Oracle 9i database on Unix while
> client running on Windows. I set the following parameters in the init file
> for this:
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> os_authent_prefix OPS$
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> remote_os_authent TRUE
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> remote_login_passwordfile NONE
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> I created the user "OPS$<domainname>\<username>" and granted the necessary
> privileges required. This username is the same as my windows client user.
> Now when I'm trying to connect from the client through sqlplus, it prompts
> me for password and doesn't accept null password.
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> I made different changes in the values for os_authent_prefix and set to ""
> or remote_os_authent to false but no good.
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> What am I missing here? Is there any catch? Please help as I need to
> present the output very soon.
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> Thanks,
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> Khan.
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