Originally posted by Thomasps
Julian,

I am doing the same thing. Installed oracle with apache in my client machine and created password file (in apache, gave the apache username "ORACLE" - I don't think it is a problem and working fine for me) . Created an Oracle user "thomas" with SYSDBA (so oracle pwd file exists) priviliages. In this way I didn't face any problem connecting to any number of databases in different servers.
I don't get very much of what you are trying to tell me. Where did you crea "an Oracle user "thomas" with SYSDBA"? In each databases?