Robyn, Are you using Oem with a console? Can you ping your database servers from your desktop? Tom Mercadante Oracle Certified Professional -----Original Message----- From: Robyn [mailto:robyn.sands@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 2004 12:44 PM To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Enterprise Manager - connection issues Hello all, As of today, I can no longer connect to any of my databases with Enterprise Manger, but I can connect via SQL*Plus and Performance Manager. I don't get any error message - the 'OK' button appears to depress, but there is no hour glass, no response. Has any one seen this before? It's very likely that the desktop nazis made changes to my machine when I logged in to the domain today, but getting an answer as to the changes made is unlikely - especially since I'm one of the bad ones that doesn't reconnect everyday. I've tried a reinstall - no luck tia ... Robyn -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l