>>all of the oracle services start except the OracleOraHome81ManagementServer.
>
>I think you need to get the Oracle Management Server (service) started.
>oemctrl oms start
>


Hi Tim,

Nope, oemctrl start oms doesn't work either. I guess this is leaning towards some kind of issue with authentication, otherwise why else would the results be different depending on the sqlnet.ora setting. I'm going to try some of the other Oracle forums.

Thanks for your help,

- Brian