I have just installed the DCOracle package V 1.3.1b on a Linux Red Hat 6.2, to access an Oracle 8.0.5 Server with python1.6 I have run with success a few tests with the scott/tiger user tables, however: 1) In order to connect successfully I had to drop the @sid parameter: dbc=DCOracle.Connect('scott/tiger@ora8') returns with error: ORA-12154 : TNS: could not resolve service name 2) I would like to connect to a remote oracle server. In this case the @sid parameter is essential. How could this problem be fixed? Is it a simple parsing problem in the oci_8.c Logon routine? which is the correct string to pe passed? @myserver.ic.unicamp.br:ora8 did not work either! Celio Guimaraes Institute of Computing Unicamp - Brazil