I'm glad that worked for you, but I've never had to recreate the password file after a password change. (In my little part of the world we have password files on databases ranging from Oracle versions 8.0 to 9.2 on both Windows NT/2000 and Solaris).
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> The solution seems to be dropping and re-creating the orapwd file.
> I had changed the sys password after I had created the password file;
> the docs say the file should pick up this password change without
> having to re-create it, but re-creating it fixed the problem.
