Hi, I had installed oracle 8.1.7 on WINNT and installed oracle client with administrator utility on win2k system. When i want to connect to this client on win2k to server on winnt. But i am getting the error ORA:12514. Can any one slove this for me. The listener.ora and tnsnames.ora files seems to be ok. Thanks in advance Bhanu __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Gorthy BhanuPrakash INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051 San Diego, California -- Public Internet access / Mailing Lists -------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).