I believe that the account needs 1) To be a *local *administrator (i.e a direct member of the local administrators group on the box, group membership doesn't cut it) 2) To have the following rights - Logon as a Service - Logon as a Batch Job - Replace a process level token - Act as part of the operating system In addition UAC should be disabled for the server (much like SELinux should be disabled on a Linux box). I'll have to recheck later unless someone can show otherwise, but my memory is that RMAN allows backups to a UNC share without having to jump through the hoops above. Are you locating the FRA directly on the share and is a controlfile located in the FRA? On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 9:37 AM, Patrick Roozen <patrick.roozen@xxxxxxxxx>wrote: > Hi All, > > We need to run the database as a different user then the "Local > System" account because we need to make backups to an UNC share. > Therefore we have created a domain user that is in the local > administrator group on the windows machine. This user is allowed to > use the UNC share as well. > > We run Oracle 10.2.0.5 SE and Windows 2008 RC2 and followed this note > on metalink/oracle support (Doc ID 457363.1). > > When starting the database service the database will not mount the > database and stops there. No extra messages in the alert file that > suggest any problem. > When we logon to the windows machine with the same account and connect > to the database we can start it manually (alter database mount/alter > database open) without any problems. > > Has anyone run into this problem before and been able to fix this? We > have a SR with oracle but have not gotten any respons yet. > > Regards, > > Patrick > Oracle DBA > > P.S. Off course running the service as "local system" will start the > database without any problems. And we also change the service of the > listener to run as the same user as the database service. > If you don't you cannot connect to the database via sqlnet. > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > > -- Niall Litchfield Oracle DBA http://www.orawin.info -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l