Second to my last email John, I've just reproduced your error (by mistake): D:\temp>java ConnTest Starting.. Loading drivers...done Making a connection to the database: jdbc:oracle:thin:@192.168.1.100:1521:DB1 as tony... SQL exception message = Io exception: The Network Adapter could not establish the connection When I looked in my properties file I found the wrong port number: jdbc:oracle:thin:@192.168.1.100:1521:DB1 Corrected it and.... D:\temp>java ConnTest Starting.. Loading drivers...done Making a connection to the database: jdbc:oracle:thin:@192.168.1.100:1524:DB1 as tony...done Executing statement "select to_char(sysdate,'hh24:mi.ss dd-Mon-yyyy') from dual" ... SYSDATE: 16:32.33 29-Oct-2005 Conn time : 0mins 1secs Connection time: 1312ms - Statement execution time: 100ms HTH Cheers Tony ----- Original Message ----- From: "NEW pop.tiscali.de" <adolph.tony@xxxxxxxxxx> To: <jdunn@xxxxxxxxx>; <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Saturday, October 29, 2005 3:18 PM Subject: Re: The Network Adapter could not establish the connection > Hi John, > > I have a simple java prog that I use that may be useful. You can test thick > (oci8) and thin connections. > > If you're intersted let then I can email it to you. > > Cheers > Tony > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "John Dunn" <jdunn@xxxxxxxxx> > To: <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Friday, October 28, 2005 9:08 PM > Subject: The Network Adapter could not establish the connection > > > > I am getting this error from a 3rd party application. > > > > > > Create DbPool error: DatabasePoolWrapper error :DATABASEPOOL : JDBC DB > > connection error : jdbc:oracle:thin:@10.20.66.154:1521:mysid ==> Io > > exception: > > The Network Adapter could not establish the connection > > > > Any ideas what the problem might be? > > Environment is Oracle 9.2 on Solaris 8. > > > > Is there any way I can test a jdbc connection from the command line? > > > > -- > > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > > > > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l