different hosts?
an application works with the client and server on the same host, but fails when they are on different hosts, the usual culprit is some sort of naming problem between the hosts. One simple way to test this is to use the ping command to attempt to ping each host from the other (using the host name). You need to ping in both directions as TAO will require both paths. Another way to test this (and even make it work) is to tell TAO to use decimal addresses (i.e. 128.252.120.1) instead of host names. You can do this by passing “-ORBDottedDecimalAddresses 1” to ORB_init in each process of your application. Note that you need to do this for every CORBA server in your system. Because many *client applications* are also CORBA servers, it is best to use this option for all processes. Assuming your code passes command line options to ORB_init, you can do this from the command line: server -ORBDottedDecimalAddresses 1 client -ORBDottedDecimalAddresses 1 Even if this works, you still probably want
