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dear friends,

i m using oracle 10g 10.2.0.1 db on winows 2003.

facing problem with BFILE datatype on network path.

I am trying to open a file on a local directory that is shared on a network. When I do so using the regular file name "C:\...", the file opens without any trouble. When I do so using the UNC path(\\123.156.101.23), I get an error message, which doesn't say that it doesn't exist, yet something else. I'm logged on to the machine as the administrator of the network, so I definitely have permissions to the shared path, and I have Oracle logged on to Windows 2003 as the administrator as well.

Thanks..