Re: OS Authentication with winXP client Linux Server

<fitzjarrell_at_cox.net> wrote in message
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> 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.
>
>

Are those databases on UNIX or Linux ? And you don't have Oracle Internet Directory installed on the database server ? I wonder if this works then ? Received on Fri Jul 27 2007 - 08:38:19 CDT