ORA-28040: No matching authentication protocol exception

I am trying to connect my grails project to Oracle databse(Oracle 12c) in windows(8) system. However, whenever I run my application I get following exception :

Caused by: org.apache.commons.dbcp.SQLNestedException: 
Cannot create PoolableConnectionFactory (ORA-28040: 
No matching authentication protocol)

Caused by: 
java.sql.SQLException: ORA-28040: 
No matching authentication protocol

According to internet suggestion I also tried editing my *.ora file but it is not working.

I added following snippet in sqlnet.ora file :

SQLNET.ALLOWED_LOGON_VERSION=10
SQLNET.ALLOWED_LOGON_VERSION_CLIENT=10
SQLNET.ALLOWED_LOGON_VERSION_SERVER=10

Here i tried assigning (10,11,12) but neither of them is working.

Can anyone please help me with this ?

Solution 1:

I deleted the ojdbc14.jar file and used ojdbc6.jar instead and it worked for me

Solution 2:

Here is some text I found at experts-exchange:

Bug 14575666

In 12.1, the default value for the SQLNET.ALLOWED_LOGON_VERSION parameter has been updated to 11. This means that database clients using pre-11g JDBC thin drivers cannot authenticate to 12.1 database servers unless theSQLNET.ALLOWED_LOGON_VERSION parameter is set to the old default of 8.

This will cause a 10.2.0.5 Oracle RAC database creation using DBCA to fail with the ORA-28040: No matching authentication protocol error in 12.1 Oracle ASM and Oracle Grid Infrastructure environments.

Workaround: Set SQLNET.ALLOWED_LOGON_VERSION=8 in the oracle/network/admin/sqlnet.ora file.

Solution 3:

This except for adding the following to sqlnet.ora

SQLNET.ALLOWED_LOGON_VERSION_CLIENT = 8
SQLNET.ALLOWED_LOGON_VERSION_SERVER = 8

If you get "ORA-01017: invalid username/password; logon denied" error, then you need to re-create your password.