Quote Originally Posted by slimdave
You've already logged into the database server to execute the command, right? Are you getting an error or something?
slimD,

i'm connected to the DB server via SQLPlus from my desktop. i've got a tnsnames entry for the DB and the system login to it. that's it. i have no operating system account for the server at this point or an OEM login to its management server instance. this is the error:

ERROR at line 1:
ORA-01119: error in creating database file '/path_on _server/file.dbf'
ORA-27040: skgfrcre: create error, unable to create file
SVR4 Error: 2: No such file or directory