{"id":39,"date":"2008-11-06T17:29:26","date_gmt":"2008-11-06T21:29:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbtricks.com\/?p=39"},"modified":"2008-11-06T17:52:59","modified_gmt":"2008-11-06T21:52:59","slug":"simple-soulution-for-ora-12638-credential-retrieval-failed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbtricks.com\/?p=39","title":{"rendered":"Simple solution for ORA-12638: Credential retrieval failed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If the Oracle client was installed using the domain administrator account instead of the local administrator, the following message could be displayed when trying to connect:<\/p>\n<p><strong>ORA-12638: <em>Credential retrieval failed <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>From the wording of the error message one could think that this error means that he is using the wrong password but this is not the case. To solve this:<\/p>\n<p>1) Go to \/oracle home\/network\/admin and open sqlnet.ora<\/p>\n<p>2) Search for\u00a0 SQLNET.AUTHENTICATION_SERVICES= (NTS) and change it to<br \/>\nSQLNET.AUTHENTICATION_SERVICES= (<strong>NONE<\/strong>)<\/p>\n<p>3) Save the file and try to connect, this should work<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If the Oracle client was installed using the domain administrator account instead of the local administrator, the following message could be displayed when trying to connect: ORA-12638: Credential retrieval failed From the wording of the error message one could think that this error means that he is using the wrong password but this is not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[22,107,20],"class_list":["post-39","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-oracle","tag-ora-12638","tag-oracle","tag-oracle-client"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbtricks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbtricks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbtricks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbtricks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbtricks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dbtricks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41,"href":"https:\/\/dbtricks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions\/41"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbtricks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbtricks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbtricks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}