"Bastien Koert" <bastien_k@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote > is your ms firewall turned on? ms sp2 screws a lot of stuff up.. > > bastien Thanks bastien, I'm running Norton IS 2005, with Windows Firewall switched off. Whether or not I turn off the Norton firewall results in the same error: <?php $db = dba_open( "C:/Apache/htdocs/test.db", "c" , "db3" ); ?> Notice: dba_open(): read: 0x12f550, 256: Permission denied in c:\apache\htdocs\admin\dba.php on line 1 Notice: dba_open(): C:/Apache/htdocs/test.db: Permission denied in c:\apache\htdocs\admin\dba.php on line 1 Warning: dba_open(C:/Apache/htdocs/test.db,c): Driver initialization failed for handler: db3: Permission denied in c:\apache\htdocs\admin\dba.php on line 1 However, this command does create a zero-byte file - C:\Apache\htdocs\test.db. Ian -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php