Re: OS Authentication with winXP client Linux Server

From: <fitzjarrell_at_cox.net>
Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2007 05:52:41 -0700
Message-ID: <1185540761.531273.313830@d30g2000prg.googlegroups.com>

On Jul 27, 1:00 am, Dazza <DarylFer..._at_gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks for taking the time to reply.
> However, OS Authentication does actually work on clients aswell.
>
> The doco suggests throughout that the setting in sqlnet.ora be set to
> SQLNET.AUTHENTICATION_SERVICES= (NTS) on both the server and the
> client...suggesting that it does work on both.
>
> >From my personal experience, my previous company did indeed have it
>
> working on the clients - the difference being they had windows servers
> aswell as windows clients, whereas here I have a linux server and a
> windows client.

My guess is you do not have the remote_os_authent parameter set to TRUE on the server. I have several databases using external authentication from Windows clients and it works quite well.

David Fitzjarrell

David Fitzjarrell Received on Fri Jul 27 2007 - 07:52:41 CDT