ORA-12705

Hello
Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition Release 10.2.0.4.0 - 64bi
OS - Solaris
I am facing the following error when trying to connect from PHP script to the Oracle database:
"ORA-12705: Cannot access NLS data files or invalid environment specified"
This is how PHP connects to the db:
$this->handle = OCILogon($user, $pass, $name, 'AL32UTF8');Please, pay attention to the last parameter.
This is the output from SELECT * FROM nls_instance_parameters:
1     NLS_LANGUAGE     AMERICAN
2     NLS_TERRITORY     AMERICA
3     NLS_SORT
4     NLS_DATE_LANGUAGE
5     NLS_DATE_FORMAT
6     NLS_CURRENCY
7     NLS_NUMERIC_CHARACTERS
8     NLS_ISO_CURRENCY
9     NLS_CALENDAR
10     NLS_TIME_FORMAT
11     NLS_TIMESTAMP_FORMAT
12     NLS_TIME_TZ_FORMAT
13     NLS_TIMESTAMP_TZ_FORMAT
14     NLS_DUAL_CURRENCY
15     NLS_COMP
16     NLS_LENGTH_SEMANTICS     BYTE
17     NLS_NCHAR_CONV_EXCP     FALSEMost of the parameters as you can see are not set.
I have no access to the machine where oracle is installed which means I cannot see environment variables there such as NLS_LANG, etc.
Please, does anyone have an idea or a guess where I can look at and what to experiment with in order to find where the problem is?
I read in Oracle Metalink also and I must say that error sometimes occurs and sometimes does not ...
Thanks!

I'm sorry .. so here is the output from nls_database_parameters:
1     NLS_CSMIG_SCHEMA_VERSION     5
2     NLS_NCHAR_CHARACTERSET     AL16UTF16
3     NLS_LANGUAGE     AMERICAN
4     NLS_TERRITORY     AMERICA
5     NLS_CURRENCY     $
6     NLS_ISO_CURRENCY     AMERICA
7     NLS_NUMERIC_CHARACTERS     .,
8     NLS_CHARACTERSET     AL32UTF8
9     NLS_CALENDAR     GREGORIAN
10     NLS_DATE_FORMAT     DD-MON-RR
11     NLS_DATE_LANGUAGE     AMERICAN
12     NLS_SORT     BINARY
13     NLS_TIME_FORMAT     HH.MI.SSXFF AM
14     NLS_TIMESTAMP_FORMAT     DD-MON-RR HH.MI.SSXFF AM
15     NLS_TIME_TZ_FORMAT     HH.MI.SSXFF AM TZR
16     NLS_TIMESTAMP_TZ_FORMAT     DD-MON-RR HH.MI.SSXFF AM TZR
17     NLS_DUAL_CURRENCY     $
18     NLS_COMP     BINARY
19     NLS_LENGTH_SEMANTICS     BYTE
20     NLS_NCHAR_CONV_EXCP     FALSE
21     NLS_RDBMS_VERSION     10.2.0.4.0NLS_CHARACTERSET is set to AL32UTF8, which is the same. What else could cause it?

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Initial state:
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You need to check you're NLS environment settings, check out this thread
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from a dos prompt.
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I am following the instructions of the tutorial "Build a Web Application with ADF Faces and Oracle TopLink" on http://www.oracle.com/technology/obe/obe1013jdev/10131/10131_adftoplink/master-detail-edit_page_adf_toplink.htm
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Group: Dba
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Others
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I have written a java program and used same drivers,customers table and connection i.e
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Thanks in advance.
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Hi,
Relevant code for CustDisp.JSP is given below:
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<%@ page import="java.util.*" %>
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Group: tomcat
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Others
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%>
error in reading file: 
<%=er.toString() %>
<%
This code gives following output:
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Every things seems to be OK but when I try to access http://localhost:8080/jsps/CustDisp.jsp, Iget:
Sql Error:
java.sql.SQLException: ORA-00604: error occurred at recursive SQL level 1 ORA-12705: Cannot access NLS data files or invalid environment specified
Best regards.
AQK

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PlsqlDocumentTablename wwv_flow_file_objects$
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PlsqlDefaultPage apex
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PlsqlRequestValidationFunction wwv_flow_epg_include_modules.authorize
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can you connect from your application server host to your database using sqlplus.
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