Hi All, I have recently installed Oracle 11g Enterprise Ed. on redhat EL4, after installing necessary patches. I have firewall enabled on this server. I also have disabled SELinux security policy. I have 11g instance running and TNS names configured. Attempt to connect to this server fails with ORA-12560 errors. Here are couple of tests done and their results. 1> I could ping this server from other machines. 2> I could ssh into this server. 3> I could tnsping/connect from being on the same machine. 4> I could not tnsping/connect from any other machine, which includes including wide variety of oracle software installed - from 8i to 10g. 5> I could not even use Oracle instant client from any remote machine. What should be the next logical step in this scenario? -Thanks, DP.