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Getting ORA-12546 ORA-12560 and ORA-516 while creating the database (Windows64) (Doc ID 365852.1)

Last updated on FEBRUARY 02, 2022

Applies to:

Oracle Database - Enterprise Edition - Version 9.2.0.1 to 11.2.0.3 [Release 9.2 to 11.2]
Oracle Database Cloud Schema Service - Version N/A and later
Oracle Database Exadata Cloud Machine - Version N/A and later
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure - Database Service - Version N/A and later
Oracle Database Backup Service - Version N/A and later
Microsoft Windows Itanium (64-bit)
Microsoft Windows x64 (64-bit)

Symptoms

While creating Oracle Database, received following errors :

ORA-12546 TNS:permission denied

ORA-12560 TNS protocol adpater error

ORA-516 Permission denied

From SQL*Net trace :
....
nladtrm: exit
nscall: error exit
nioqper: error from nscall
nioqper: nr err code: 0
nioqper: ns main err code: 12546
nioqper: ns (2) err code: 12560
nioqper: nt main err code: 516

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Cause

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