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hai...DBA,
i'm a newcomer for Oracle Enterprise
Edition.
i used to learn Personal Edition 8.1.6
before.
now i'm facing a problem in Enterprise Edition 8.1.6
on Win2000 Advance Server.
It worked fine before then suddenly, when i attempt
to login,
no matter it's SQLPlus, EMS, DBA
Studio,....
it's just returned this error message:
ORA-12638 Credential retrieval
failed
so i can't login and can't start the
oracle.
i referred to Oracle error code
description,
it say,
Cause: The authentication service
failed to retrieve
credentials of a user.
Action: Enable tracing to
determine the exact error.
so, what should i do? enable tracing for what?
Listener?
thanks and hav a nice
day.
Received on Tue Jan 08 2002 - 19:05:05 CST
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