Hi all, I'm looking around to check if there's a solution that does not force me to buy Oracle Internet Directory. Problem is rather simple, I want to authenticate my database user against active directory. This want to say that user are phisically present in database and only password verification is done in active directory. Grants, roles and other properties are stored in database server. Users should be able to connect to database either from their own workstation with applications similar to SQLDeveloper and from third parties applications that does not reside on user workstation (maybe oracle BI). Metalink has no valid solution and also administrator guide does not provide any interesting hint. Database is 11.2 . OID is another expensive product I'm not able to buy today. Thanks Ste -- http://www.stefanocislaghi.eu -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l