hullo everybody, i want to access data on oracle server that resides on a remote machine. i've installed oracle 8i(client side only) for linux on a redhat6.2 and managed to compile ZOracleDA with no problems. i can connect ok from sqlplus and the test script that comes with ZOracleDA can import and connect to the remote database server OK. however, i can't create a ZOracleDA connection. what's the connection string? i've tried user/passwd@myora_SID - this barfed out connection "Invalid connection string: emedia/emedia123@nstdb" user/passwd crashed zope. i think my environment is all set since i can connect from sqlplus and the ZOracleDA test script runs ok. what more should look at? pointers/docs accepted. p/s - i'm a Oracle newbie and not the DBA for the server that i want to access. i d/l DCOracleDA, compiled it, ran the test script successfully and stopped at that since i'm not quite sure what to do next thanks -- ------------------------------------------------------ http://www.kedai.com.my/kk Am I Evil?