Configuring Oracle Database to Communicate with Oracle Automatic Storage Management

On Windows, Oracle Database installations that use Oracle Automatic Storage Management must use Windows native authentication.

By default, Windows native authentication is enabled. To ensure that Windows native authentication is enabled, check the sqlnet.ora file, which by default is located in ORACLE_HOME\network\admin, and ensure that it has NTS enabled. For example:

sqlnet.authentication_services=(NTS)