Sherman, Well picked!!! There's a bug in workbench.sh which is including the 'driver' folder name twice in the classpath. The script has been echoing this on startup but, to be honest, I had no real idea what should have been displayed. So as far as I can tell, this should be affecting anyone using workbench.sh? Anyway, can fix the script by changing: for i in `ls drivers/*.jar`; do CP=$CP:drivers/$i done to for i in `ls drivers/*.jar`; do CP=$CP:$i done Alternatively, you could change the ls command. All now works fine. Thanks so much for your help. I have no idea what to do next .... but that has never stopped me before!!! Thanks again, Greg Shearer :) --Edit-- Have just thought that this may not be a problem on all systems. Not that familiar with ls, although I would expect behaviour to be pretty much universal. Anyway, it is certainly a problem on SUSE ES 10. Post edited by: shearerg, at: 2007/05/22 04:42