I have a new dedicatded OLTP db created on the NT server. I can connect to it locally. When I am tryibng to connect remotely I am getting tns timed out. Where as when I do tnsping it works OK. I set the connect_time in the listener on the server with a vig value and it still times out. ANy reason why ?? I can ping to the server, also tnsping and everything else works except when I try to connect from sqlplur, oem it times out.