The installer will create the ORA_DBA group and add the installing user to it if it doesn't exist - and last time I looked would add the installing user if the group existed but the user wasn't a member. I feel a blog article coming on - especially as you might not actually want the installing user to become sysdba on all databases on the server. On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 10:17 AM, Yechiel Adar <adar666@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > No problem. All our installs are performed with domain accounts. > > The account need to a member of local administrators and also a member of > ORA_DBA group on the oracle server. > > Yechiel > > > On 09/02/2011 00:07, Joe Smith wrote: > > Where is there a document on setting up oracle users to administrator the > database on Windows servers? > > Our admin wants to use domain accounts with Active Directory , but that > does not sound right to me. > > I have looked on metalink and the install docs but have not found anything > yet. > > Can somebody point to a document? > > > -- Niall Litchfield Oracle DBA http://www.orawin.info