I suppose it is unkind to laugh at people who are fumbling around with problems in technologies they do not understand, but this is a funny little exchange. First: SQLNET.AUTHENTICATION_SERVICES has nothing to do with the person's problem. Second: The person's error is quite self-explanatory. Third: One wonders why he (or his helpers here) did not just Google the error message. The solution would have been quickly found. The problem is that the person is either 1) trying to create a table in his own schema without having the CREATE TABLE privilege, or 2) trying to create a table in another schema without the CREATE ANY TABLE privilege. In addition, the user's account must have a quota on its default tablespace or have the UNLIMITED TABLESPACE privilege without one of which the ORA-01536 error will occur. Kind regards, Russ