Hi, I have the following line in the omniORb.cfg file ORBInitRef corbaloc:iiop:hostname.test.com:2809/NameService when I started the program, I am getting the CORBA::SystemException while calling orb->resolve_initial_references("NameService"); the returned value of the above statement seems to be NULL. I am passing the valid hostname of the machine running inside VPN. What could be the problem? Ram