is it possible to create a db connection object on server and use it by client ? which protocol (xml-rpc, soap, pyro) should i use ? client: px=protocol.proxy(remote_machine) rdb=px.db(user,pass,database) rcs=rdb.cursor() data=rcs.fetchall("select * from") rdb.close() del px -- marcin andrzejewski m.andrzejewski at dmz.com.pl keson at post.pl