authentication externally on WinNT

2001-04-19 Thread Sonja Šehović
It's working now! Thanks to all that helped. In addition, I discovered that you must put one parameter in sqlnet.ora file: SQLNET.AUTENTICATION_SERVICES=(NTS) Sonja -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: =?iso-8859-2?Q?Sonja_=A9ehovi=E6?= INET: [EMA

Re: authentication externally on WinNT

2001-04-18 Thread Jim Walski
I was just recently playing around with this and found a couple of tips to fix my problem: There is a registry setting called: OSAUTH_PREFIX_DOMAIN that is now defaulted to TRUE for 8.1 databases. To get my machine to login without a username/password I had to create an oracle user name like "M

RE: authentication externally on WinNT

2001-04-18 Thread MacGregor, Ian A.
Are you suggesting using "ops$" accounts over sql*net?. Is your database inaccessible usesr with administrator/root privileges on any of their machines? OPS$ authentication is notoriously easy to spoof. Ian MacGregor Stanford Linear Accelerator Center ian@slac,stanford.edu -Origin

RE: authentication externally on WinNT

2001-04-18 Thread Gogala, Mladen
You need an oracle username with authent_prefix added to the NT username, which means that if NT username is "scott", oracle username should be "ops$scott", in case that you will be using the default authentication prefix of "ops$". You can always choose something else, like 'mg$', (my initials, c

authentication externally on WinNT

2001-04-18 Thread Sonja Šehović
Hi! Oracle8.1.7 on WinNT. I created database user with external authentication with whom I'm logged on that WinNT server. When I start exp there is error invalid username/password logon denied. What am I missing? It works just fine on UNIX! TIA, Sonja -- Please see the official ORACLE