Hi all, I'm a newcomer to the list. Having a weird problem and hoping somebody can help. It's on Oracle 8i. The production database is on Windows NT Server and a mirrored copy (same ora.init same sqlnet.ora etc.) is on Windows 2000. We wanted to utilize Java so we installed it on a fresh copy of Test. Worked fine, only hitch was that we had to add the user account to the ora_dba group to upload scripts in the PLSQL.jar file using loadjava because it's got protected scripts. On the NT Server we hit the same wall but adding into the ORA_DBA group didn't solve the problem. So I've played around with it for a while but couldn't come up with a solution. I did discover that I can't log in as sysdba at all; not on that machine, not from OEM on my workstation, not from SQLPLUSw; but I can get into the test box which seems to have the exact same settings. It's a production box so I'd like a solution that'll work without taking it down. If not something that I could reproduce on the 2000 box would be nice so I could test the solution before trying it at midnight on Friday, and if not that, just knowing what was going on would be good. Thanks very much anybody, Ben. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This message may contain confidential information, and is intended only for the use of the individual(s) to whom it is addressed. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l