Niall Yes you are right as otherwise the error should be like ORA-12454 or like. It look like is not reading the tnsnames.ora for Alias and so is the reason that there is no trace file generated. The strange point is that I used the same .msi file to install the application. Is it possible that user have some permission issue or reinstall Oracle Client Tx Sanjay Niall Litchfield <niall.litchfield@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: Hi Sanjay "database does not exist" is not an Oracle error. It looks like an application developers exception handling message to me which is masking the underlying error. It might well be worth running select username,service_name from v$session; once the vb app is successfully connected. That will tell you what service the machine is using. Niall On 7/10/07, Sanjay Mishra <smishra_97@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: I had a weird situation where I had 3 PC and Oracle 10g Client is installed on them. I had installed one of the VB application on all three connecting to Oracle 10g DB. One PC is able to read the Service correctly and connect to the database while others are not THere is only One Oracle Home on them Sqlplus work fine in connecting to the Database and So TNS Service or alias are correct I tried to trace parameter in sqlnet.ora but found that only Sqlplus connection is only creating Trace file while there is no trace file created with VB Access which look like that it is not reading the Tnsnames. No Oracle errors except database does not exist I had also added TNS_ADMIN in environment pointing to OH/network/admin Any other suggestion TIA Sanjay --------------------------------- Food fight? Enjoy some healthy debate in the Yahoo! Answers Food & Drink Q&A. -- Niall Litchfield Oracle DBA http://www.orawin.info --------------------------------- Ready for the edge of your seat? Check out tonight's top picks on Yahoo! TV.