A problem of external tables

Hi All,
I am having an oracle server and a file server.
I want to keep data file in file server.
I am able to create directory in oracle.
I am able to create table succesfully.
But I am getting error while giving select query.
Please help.
Thanks

My codes are like that
Create or replace directory ext_dir as 'C:\test';
drop table ext_table_fixed;
Create table ext_table_fixed (
col1 char(4),
col2 char(5)
organization external (
type oracle_loader
default directory ext_dir
access parameters (
records delemeted by newline
fields (
col1 position (1:4) char(4),
col2 position (5:9) char(5)
location ('a.txt')
) reject limit unlimited;
Select * from ext_table_fixed;
Error
ORA-29913: ODCIEXTTABLEOPEN error in executing string callout
ORA-29400: data cartridge error string
KUP-00554: error encountered while parsing access parameters
KUP-01005: syntax error: found "identifier": expecting one of: "badfile, byteordermark, characterset, discardfile, exit, fields, fixed, load, logfile, nodiscardfile, nobadfile, nologfile, date_cache, string, skip, variable"
KUP-01008: the bad identifier was: delemeted
KUP-01007: at li

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you can select * from ext_table from the Solaris console SQLPLUS,
but you can not select * from ext_table from the Windows workstation SQLPLUS.
You can DROP TABLE ext_table from the Windows workstation SQLPLUS.
You just cannot select * from ext_table from the Windows workstation SQLPLUS.
I guess as a test,
I can drop from the ext_table creation script the references
to discardfile, badfile, and logfile,
and remove this other file objects from the equation...
which appears to be a file permissions problem.

A problem of external tables

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