Hi JMac, didn't we discuss this here http://www.dbasupport.com/forums/sho...threadid=37475 ?

I'd create a domain user, make it a member of the local Administrators group - that has a good chance of being enough, but it depends on your NT security setup. I'm pretty sure that on the server the User Rights Policies "Log on as a Service" will have to include this user or a group that it is a member of.

Then log on as that user and check the access to the remote machine - watch out that if this is done by adding the new user to a global group, it takes time for the changes to propogate.

Once all that looks OK use the Services applet in Control Panel to change the user & password in the Startup option for the Oracle services OracleServiceSID and possibly the Listener? . . . not sure about that.

(Note for Jeff: rebooting is NOT necessary!)