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Article ID: 178391 - Last Review: December 3, 2003 - Revision: 3.1
PRB: Oracle TNS: Authentication Service Initialization Error
This article was previously published under Q178391
Oracle databases authenticate users that are logged on with SQL*Net
Authentication services. This service works fine for users logged into
Oracle through SQLPlus; however, when the logged on user is a service like
Internet Information Server, the authentication fails with the following
error:
[Microsoft][ODBC driver for Oracle][Oracle]ORA-12641: TNS:authentication
service failed to initialize
This is a known limitation of SQL*Net Authentication.
The problem may be corrected by editing the Sqlnet.ora file. This
configuration file is usually stored in the Network/Admin subdirectory of
the Oracle Home directory. The following line needs to be added to this
file:
SQLNET.AUTHENTICATION_SERVICES = (none)
Microsoft is researching this problem and will post new information here in
the Microsoft Knowledge Base as it becomes available.
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