ask your network guy for firewall settings. you might be put in a vpn group with only permissions to access your desktop, your emails etc, but not necessarily direct access to your database servers. What I usually do is to remote desktop to my machine at work then work from there. On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 2:08 PM, Dba DBA <oracledbaquestions@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Ok, not specifically an oracle issue, but I am not sure where to post this. > I am not a network admin. The place I am working does not have a senior one. > > I can connect to VPN to a remote site. > I cannot tnsping the database I was told are currently. I have the full IP > address. However, it is an internal 10.1.x.x IP address. I cannot ping them > either. This could be expect since alot of places block ping traffic. -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l