Try setting the TWO_TASK environment variable to the SID. Robert Buda Buda Consulting, Inc 100 Overlook Center, 2nd Floor Princeton, NJ 08540 609 375-2368 www.budaconsulting.com _____ From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of nilesh kumar Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2009 11:26 AM To: Bobak, Mark Cc: ORACLE-L Subject: Re: /as sysdba insufficient privilege error yes i see those entires On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 9:30 PM, Bobak, Mark <Mark.Bobak@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: Do you have: SQLNET.AUTHENTICATION_SERVICES=(NTS) In your sqlnet.ora? Is your Windows user in the ORA_DBA group? -Mark -- Mark J. Bobak Senior Database Administrator, System & Product Technologies ProQuest 789 E. Eisenhower, Parkway, P.O. Box 1346 Ann Arbor MI 48106-1346 +1.734.997.4059 or +1.800.521.0600 x 4059 <mailto:mark.bobak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> mark.bobak@xxxxxxxxxxxx <http://www.proquest.com> www.proquest.com <http://www.csa.com> www.csa.com ProQuest...Start here. From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of nilesh kumar Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2009 9:56 AM To: ORACLE-L Subject: /as sysdba insufficient privilege error 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 -- Thanks Nilesh Soni Oracle DBA--OCA 10g Oracle is not a magic..it takes years of experiance :-) 9860584034