aha, to be honest I have never tried that in any versions, I thought remote os authentification has security concerns have you set to true the remote os authentification parameter ? On 2/2/07, genegurevich@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx < genegurevich@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Yes, that is what I do. I have the same user existing on local and remote DB and I am creating the dblink the way you have it thank you Gene Gurevich amonte <ax.mount@xxxxxxx om> To genegurevich@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 02/01/2007 05:10 cc PM oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject Re: problems with dblink in oracle 10.2.0.2 Dont tell me you are using remote os authentification? Are you saying server 1 has user ops$adm1 server 2 has user ops$adm1 and in server 1 as ops$adm1 you do create database link xxx using 'yyy' ? On 2/1/07, genegurevich@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx < genegurevich@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: Hi all: I have spend 2 weeks trying to get help from Oracle support on this (time well wasted). Here is my issue. I am running oracle 10.2.0. on aix 5.3 on a local server and on a remote server. I have oracle id externally authenticated on both sides. I can connect as sqlplus / to local DB and as sqlplus /@remoteDB. I have created a db link on a local database : create database link remoteDB using 'remoteDB' When I try to use it I get an error: desc user_tables@remoteDB ERROR: ORA-01017: invalid username/password; logon denied ORA-02063: preceding line from PCCS03 (this is my remote DB) The remote instance is up (I can tnsping id and connect via sqlplus). What is the problem here. I have been using dblinks created this way in oracle 8 and 9 and never had this issue. Is there anything new in oracle 10 related to this? Does anyone know? TIA Gene Gurevich -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l