Hi THis is in jboss-4.2.2.GA. I tried both with and without -b options. The OS is Windos XP SP2. My JNDI.properties are as follows java.naming.factory.initial=org.jnp.interfaces.NamingContextFactory java.naming.factory.url.pkgs=org.jboss.naming:org.jnp.interfaces java.naming.provider.url=jnp://127.1.1.1:1099 I tried different combination's of this, without success... Any clue please? View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4221448#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...