Hi All, Sorry, I must be missing something obvious here, but I am just not seeing it. I am able to login to our catalog database with sqlplus, but RMAN connection is throwing invalid username password. I have reset it a couple times, and then even exported/imported the catalog for the test below which throws the same error. Anyone have any insight into this? The catalog is an 11202 database that resides in an 11203 instance You can see the output below. > sqlplus mike/mike@CATPRD SQL*Plus: Release 11.2.0.2.0 Production on Mon Oct 7 09:39:39 2013 Copyright (c) 1982, 2010, Oracle. All rights reserved. Connected to: Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition Release 11.2.0.3.0 - 64bit Production With the Partitioning, OLAP, Data Mining and Real Application Testing options SQL> select distinct(DB_ID) from rc_backup_set; DB_ID ---------- 2081096298 2034525353 SQL> exit Disconnected from Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition Release 11.2.0.3.0 - 64bit Production With the Partitioning, OLAP, Data Mining and Real Application Testing options > rman catalog mike/mike@CATPRD Recovery Manager: Release 11.2.0.2.0 - Production on Mon Oct 7 09:40:15 2013 Copyright (c) 1982, 2009, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. RMAN-00571: =========================================================== RMAN-00569: =============== ERROR MESSAGE STACK FOLLOWS =============== RMAN-00571: =========================================================== RMAN-00554: initialization of internal recovery manager package failed RMAN-04004: error from recovery catalog database: ORA-01017: invalid username/password; logon denied What is interesting is that if I use and 11203 rman client, I am able to get in to the catalog even though it recognizes the different version of the catalog >rman catalog mike/mike@CATPRD Recovery Manager: Release 11.2.0.3.0 - Production on Mon Oct 7 09:58:13 2013 Copyright (c) 1982, 2011, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. connected to recovery catalog database PL/SQL package MIKE.DBMS_RCVCAT version 11.02.00.02 in RCVCAT database is not current PL/SQL package MIKE.DBMS_RCVMAN version 11.02.00.02 in RCVCAT database is not current Thanks in advance for any help -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l