also, make sure db service is up and listener is up. And that you have a password file ^_^ hth Alan Bort Oracle Certified Associate On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 2:26 PM, Guillermo Alan Bort <cicciuxdba@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > check that your user is member of the ORA_DBA group in windows, that > both LOCAL and ORACLE_SID env variables are pointing to a valid > tnsnames entry, that TNS_ADMIN is pointing to a valid directory > (containing a tnsnames.ora) and that SQLNET.AUTHENTICATION_SERVICES is > pointing to NTS. > > hth > Alan Bort > Oracle Certified Associate > > > > On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 12:55 PM, nilesh kumar <nileshkum@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Hello Good Morning!! >> >> Hope every one doing good. >> >> This morning I am trying to login to my windows database. It showing a >> strange error. How should I resolve this. >> >> D:\>sqlplus "/as sysdba" >> >> SQL*Plus: Release 10.2.0.1.0 - Production on Wed Feb 4 20:22:29 2009 >> >> Copyright (c) 1982, 2005, Oracle. All rights reserved. >> >> ERROR: >> ORA-01031: insufficient privileges >> >> >> Enter user-name: >> >> >> -- >> Thanks >> Nilesh Soni >> Oracle is not a magic..it takes years of experiance :-) >> 9860584034 >> >> > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l