Hello all I had an old monetdb installation on my Windows laptop -Did the upgrade in Oct2020-SP5 Bugfix Release (11.39.17) It really looks like I can start the server C:\Program Files\MonetDB\MonetDB5\bin>mserver5 # MonetDB 5 server v11.39.17 (Oct2020-SP5) # Serving database 'demo', using 4 threads # Compiled for amd64-pc-windows-msvc/64bit # Found 15.862 GiB available main-memory of which we use 12.928 GiB # Copyright (c) 1993 - July 2008 CWI. # Copyright (c) August 2008 - 2021 MonetDB B.V., all rights reserved # Visit https://www.monetdb.org/ for further information # Listening for connection requests on mapi:monetdb://localhost:50000/ # MonetDB/GIS module loaded # MonetDB/SQL module loaded # MonetDB server is started. To stop server press Ctrl-C. But when I want to use the mclient, it asks the user and password and then... nothing and after a few minutes I have this message Challenge string is not valid, it is empty Same thing with an ODBC connection : after a long time, it fails. I have reinstalled Monetdb but nothing changed. I have no idea of what's wrong. Best regards, Simon Simon AUBERT [cid:image001.jpg@01D76D97.13BF6A80] Bourse Maritime - 1, place Lainé - 33 000 Bordeaux Mob : +33(0)6 63 83 76 29