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| Brian, How did you solve this problem? I just encountered exactly the same problem, same O/S, different database driver. Bill Originally posted by Brian > I am having trouble setting up a System DSN in ODBC > Administrator. I go through all of the setup steps, > including test connection (successful), but after > finishing, the DSN is not listed in the list of System > DSN's. But each time I try to manually set it up, I am > prompted by the system asking if I want to overwrite the > existing DSN, so it is detecting the previous setup. THis > then led me to the Registry where I did find a folder with > the ODBC files. I deleted these from the Registry, tried > again, with the same results. > > This is on an XP Pro laptop connecting to a SQL 2000 > Server, I am using the Administrators UN & PW to access > the laptop. I have setup several other laptops in > this environment (some W2K, some XP Pro) without problems, > but this one is giving me headaches. Any ideas what might be causing this? Thanks. -- Posted via http://dbforums.com |