Joel, I think you have to give the fully qualified domain name of the directory (\\servername\directory name) but it's been a long time since I tried to do that Gus Spier Gus.Spier@xxxxxxxxx 540 454 3074 On Jun 19, 2013, at 15:33, "Patterson, Joel" <jpatterson@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 11g on windows 2008. Oracle is running as an admin account. From sqlplus > same account can spool a file successfully. Does anyone know what I am > missing to set the parameter successfully? > > alter system set standby_archive_dest='J:\' > * > ERROR at line 1: > ORA-02097: parameter cannot be modified because specified value is invalid > ORA-16032: parameter STANDBY_ARCHIVE_DEST destination string cannot be > translated > ORA-09291: sksachk: invalid device specified for archive destination > OSD-04018: Unable to access the specified directory or device. > O/S-Error: (OS 3) The system cannot find the path specified. > > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l