Check that you are logged into the domain server. In the past, when the domain server would go down, we would get this error. Jeffrey Beckstrom Database Administrator Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority 1240 W. 6th Street Cleveland, Ohio 44113 >>> Guillermo Alan Bort <cicciuxdba@xxxxxxxxx> 2/4/09 11:26 AM >>> check that your user is member of the ORA_DBA group in windows, that both LOCAL and ORACLE_SID env variables are pointing to a valid tnsnames entry, that TNS_ADMIN is pointing to a valid directory (containing a tnsnames.ora) and that SQLNET.AUTHENTICATION_SERVICES is pointing to NTS. hth Alan Bort Oracle Certified Associate On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 12:55 PM, nilesh kumar <nileshkum@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello Good Morning!! > > Hope every one doing good. > > This morning I am trying to login to my windows database. It showing a > strange error. How should I resolve this. > > D:\>sqlplus "/as sysdba" > > SQL*Plus: Release 10.2.0.1.0 - Production on Wed Feb 4 20:22:29 2009 > > Copyright (c) 1982, 2005, Oracle. All rights reserved. > > ERROR: > ORA-01031: insufficient privileges > > > Enter user-name: > > > -- > Thanks > Nilesh Soni > Oracle is not a magic..it takes years of experiance :-) > 9860584034 > > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l --------------------------------------------------------------------- Scanning of this message and addition of this footer is performed by SurfControl E-mail Filter software in conjunction with virus detection software.