RMAN backup to Shared drive issue

[matthew00]

Hi all,

I am on 9.2.0.6 and on Windows 2003. It's been working all along and when I am ready to implement it thing start breaking, I have an issue backing up RMAN to network shared drive. Any way below is detail of what's going on.

I have the target database on server A and catalog on server B. I want my backup store on server B (make my job much easier if I store the backup files on the same server as target database as A server, but this is management call so I have to follow).

I follow docs 145843.1 and again, it's been working great for me before. and all the sudden it breaks, any way, here is the copy of my script and errors:

RMAN > run {
	CONFIGURE CONTROLFILE AUTOBACKUP FORMAT FOR DEVICE TYPE DISK TO '\\BACKUP_SERVER\RMANTEST_%F';
     	allocate channel c1 device type disk format '\\BACKUP_SERVER\RMANTEST_%U';
      	backup INCREMENTAL level=0 database plus archivelog delete input;
	delete FORCE noprompt obsolete;
    }

old RMAN configuration parameters:
CONFIGURE CONTROLFILE AUTOBACKUP FORMAT FOR DEVICE TYPE DISK TO 'x:\RMANTEST_%F'
;
new RMAN configuration parameters:
CONFIGURE CONTROLFILE AUTOBACKUP FORMAT FOR DEVICE TYPE DISK TO '\\BACKUP_SERVER\RMANTEST_%F';
new RMAN configuration parameters are successfully stored
starting full resync of recovery catalog
full resync complete

allocated channel: c1
channel c1: sid=14 devtype=DISK


Starting backup at 21-MAR-06
current log archived
channel c1: starting archive log backupset
channel c1: specifying archive log(s) in backup set
input archive log thread=1 sequence=38 recid=11 stamp=585578177
input archive log thread=1 sequence=39 recid=12 stamp=585608294
input archive log thread=1 sequence=40 recid=13 stamp=585608849
input archive log thread=1 sequence=41 recid=14 stamp=585610599
input archive log thread=1 sequence=42 recid=15 stamp=585652227
input archive log thread=1 sequence=43 recid=16 stamp=585652406
input archive log thread=1 sequence=44 recid=17 stamp=585652614
channel c1: starting piece 1 at 21-MAR-06
released channel: c1
RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
RMAN-00569: =============== ERROR MESSAGE STACK FOLLOWS ===============
RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
RMAN-03002: failure of backup command at 03/21/2006 09:17:10
ORA-19504: failed to create file "\\BACKUP_SERVER\RM
ANTEST_0lhegmc6_1_1"
ORA-27040: skgfrcre: create error, unable to create file
OSD-04002: unable to open file
O/S-Error: (OS 1326) Logon failure: unknown user name or bad password.

RMAN>


I log in as administrator for both target and catalog server and the password is the same.

does anyone run into this issue before so if you guys can shed some light ???

thanks

[LKBrwn_DBA]

The problem is not with target server or RMAN catalog, but with permissions on the backup server.