Hello, After a fresh install of 10.1.0.4 (on Win2K here) I created a simple database using dbca. What I find strange is that, although everything else is looking fine, a login to the database takes approx 20 to 30 secs. And it's not just sqlplus also exp/imp/dbconsole show the same login time. I logged a tar for this and expect some input from Oracle but wanted to know if it is common and not something special to my env. I haven't had a change to use other servers yet. Regards, Andre van Winssen -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l