Re: ORA-12154 errors on Win2K system with 8.1.7 driver

From: Sybrand Bakker <postbus_at_sybrandb.demon.nl>
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2002 21:00:21 +0200
Message-ID: <uhhh313389gp31@corp.supernews.com>

"Troy High" <thigh_at_bigfoot.com> wrote in message news:adbc77d7.0206250644.47c719ab_at_posting.google.com...
> Just for the record,
>
> I have been plagued with intermittent ORA-12154 errors on my Win2K web
> server which has the Oracle 8.1.7 client on it. I have been
> developing ASP applications that have given this error at times.
> Recently, I started checking the NTFS permissions and discovered that
> only the "Administrator" account had any rights to the executables or
> the tnsnames.ora file. After adding the SYSTEM account with full
> rights, the ORA-12154 errors went away.
>
> I hope somebody else out there can benefit from this tidbit of
> knowledge. I spent a LOT of time debugging this issue and it is too
> bad that the Oracle installer does not create these permissions by
> default.
>
> Troy High
> thigh_at_Bigfoot.com

Why would it?
You are directed to install it using the local administrator, aren't you?

Regards

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Sybrand Bakker
Senior Oracle DBA

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Received on Tue Jun 25 2002 - 14:00:21 CDT