Your IP and hostname get "activated" by a network connection so if your nic is not "activated", ie. connected, then you will not be able to connect to your database because it can't look up your ip address through the network.

I had something similar in my other job. A small database sitting on my laptop. The way around this is to connect to the database as local (bequeath local) which I believe is available with 7.3.3.

Here's a doc from Oracle on this :

http://technet.oracle.com/doc/window...a55909/ch2.htm

hth.

Rui Amaral
Oracle DBA - OCP 7, 8, 8i


[Edited by ramaral on 07-18-2001 at 11:23 AM]