Its been a while but as far as I remember it should ask you for admin password to be set during installation. Its been ages though. Scott/tiger will work only when you install the additional demo database during installation. Orelse sytem/administrator should work. Try not to use sys/change_on_install. I believe your problem is with the installation. Have you configured host in your computer? if not the then research on it more as your computer should be a host under something ( can be a dummy). The system generally takes the computer_name whatever you may have as your hostname. Computername in a sense whatever your computer's name is in the network. or try 127.0.01 instead should work. Try all these and post your result. I can do it one more time just for the heck of it and let you know. Jai hos