FYI, you probably already know... In windoze it helps to have the DNS service running to resolve portions of the hostname like 'ffci.com'. PING'ing can usually resolve these concerns, and TRACERT by ipaddress and hostname and check what DNS resolves. Good luck. --- "Koivu, Lisa" <Lisa.Koivu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > It doesn't work without the ffci.com anywhere. I > prefer to keep that > out of the mix, it's just more typing and more mess. > Regards, Mike Thomas __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Win a $20,000 Career Makeover at Yahoo! HotJobs http://hotjobs.sweepstakes.yahoo.com/careermakeover ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html -----------------------------------------------------------------