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Oracle on W2K server working with NDS?

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by voodoov 1 view

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Our programmers have 3 Oracle Web servers..they're all running on Win2K server.(no domain) But we use Novell for all of our file and print services. Right now, anyone who is simply attached to our network can access the applications on the oracle web servers. Is there any way to get Oracle-on-Win2K to talk to NDS so that only users authenticated to NDS can see the web server?

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by erikdr

NDS out of the box cannot control an object on a server not having NDS. However, as you are using a home-built webserver environment, you are free to follow the following approach:
* Install the Novell client on the W2K webservers, and have them logged on to NDS.
* Manually create objects in the NDS for the Oracle parts you need to secure.
* Now whenever an user accesses the Oracle server, check (NDS API or LDAP) the NDS to see whether they have access.

The 2nd sore point in this is to get the user identity at the W2K web server. I'm afraid the routes are
- Either force them to re-type userid and password the first time they access the website
- Or use Novell Single SignOn for this. Not very cheap, but does the job well.

At yourservice,

- The Netherlands

by dc1

You could use DirXML from Netware. Has some version of NDS and EDirectory associated with it and also a decent price tag but makes what you are trying to do seemless.

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