Error: XDB requires a username ans password
671328Nov 19 2008 — edited Dec 1 2008Hello there,
I have installed Oracle xe 10g a few months ago on a Windows 2003 server. I use Oracle for storing some data that I use in my Asp.Net / C# webapplication. Everything worked fine until a few weeks ago....
On the Oracle server I opened internet explorer 7 (also tried with firefox) and browsed to the database homepage ( http://localhost:8080/apex ), I then got a windows popup saying I should authenticate.
See this URL for a screenshot: http://img508.imageshack.us/my.php?image=oracleerrornt2.jpg
I have tried multiple different passwords such as my own windows credentials, the windows credentials from the windows administrator and my system login that I use in Oracle. None of them worked at all, and after three failed attempts, I see a white webpage with the text: "Unauthorized".
Because nothing worked I backupped my databases via SQL plus commandline (because that still worked, thankfully), uninstalled Oracle Xe en rebooted the server. I then installed Oracle Xe again, and when I go to the database homepage the error was gone. So I imported my databases again and was happy again, but today the error returned....
Does somebody know how I can solve this problem, without first uninstalling Oracle Xe and installing it again?
Maybe some handy additional information; I don't use a proxy server, the database homepage is a trusted site in internet explorer, and in my host file the only entry it contains is the default: 127.0.0.1 localhost.
Cya