On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 7:28 AM, Herbener, Martin - KETS Engineering and Management <Martin.Herbener@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Those of you using NTS (Windows OS authentication) - have you found that > the end users' Windows accounts need some level of permissions/user > rights on the DBMS host? > > Perhaps if you explained the issue you are experiencing someone here can help. OS authentication does not require any rights on the server if the authentication is network based - AD, Kerboros, ... If the authentication must actually take place on the server, then a user account will be needed, at least it works that way on linux/unix. So the answer is "It depends" :) Jared Still Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist Oracle Blog: http://jkstill.blogspot.com Home Page: http://jaredstill.com