User's Manual

Configuring Oracle Database and Oracle Net Services for Oracle DCE Integration

Conﬁguring Oracle DCE Integration 10-17

■ protocol.ora

■ sqlnet.ora

Typically, CDS is used for name resolution. Thus, a local naming conﬁguration ﬁle

(tnsnames.ora) is not used, except when loading names and addresses into CDS.

Parameters in protocol.ora

There are four DCE parameters located in the protocol.ora file. Each parameter

begins with the preﬁx DCE. to distinguish it from parameters relevant to other

protocols. If default values are used for these four parameters, DCE Integration

does not require a protocol.ora ﬁle. The parameters and their current defaults

follow:

■ DCE.AUTHENTICATION=dce_secret

■ DCE.PROTECTION=pkt_integ

■ DCE.TNS_ADDRESS_OID=1.3.22.1.5.1

■ DCE.LOCAL_CELL_USERNAMES=TRUE

Conﬁguration parameters are not case-sensitive; you can enter them in either

uppercase or lowercase.

DCE.AUTHENTICATION

The DCE.AUTHENTICATION parameter is optional. It indicates the authentication

value to be used for each DCE RPC. The client DCE_AUTHENTICATION value must

be the same as the server DCE_AUTHENTICATION value. If this entry is not

speciﬁed, cell-wide default authentication is used. The options follow:

DCE.PROTECTION

DCE.PROTECTION is an optional ﬁeld that speciﬁes the data integrity protection

levels for data transmission. The client DCE_PROTECTION level must be equal to or

Option Description

NONE No authentication

DCE_SECRET DCE shared-secret key authentication (Kerberos)

DCE_SECRET Default authentication level and recommended value

DEFAULT Cell default