Infrastructure Software

Hi, Im trying to connect to my 11g/r2 database on an installation of OEL 5.5 from a windows laptop on the same wireless network (at home) using instant client sqlplus...

I have installed and configured instant client on the windows laptop, but everytime I try to connect to the oracle database on OEL i get a TNS connect timeout...

Im wondering if there is something on the linux machine blocking the connection?

im new to linux... i can ping the linux machine from the windows client, but I dont think I can ping the windows client from the linux machine : (maybe its not this.... does anyone have any ideas??)

[matt@dbserver ~]$ ping 192.168.1.11
PING 192.168.1.11 (192.168.1.11) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 192.168.1.11: icmp_seq=1 ttl=128 time=22.2 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.11: icmp_seq=2 ttl=128 time=2.21 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.11: icmp_seq=3 ttl=128 time=1.73 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.11: icmp_seq=4 ttl=128 time=3.76 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.11: icmp_seq=5 ttl=128 time=1.79 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.11: icmp_seq=6 ttl=128 time=1.69 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.11: icmp_seq=7 ttl=128 time=1.59 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.11: icmp_seq=8 ttl=128 time=1.65 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.11: icmp_seq=9 ttl=128 time=1.53 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.11: icmp_seq=10 ttl=128 time=1.29 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.11: icmp_seq=11 ttl=128 time=1.38 ms