> I am running Ubuntu 8.04 with Wine 1.1.0 installed. > I am trying to install MS SQL Server 2000 Client on the machine in order to connect to a Windows Server Machine running an MS SQL Server 2000. I do not think that is msde. Since I have used that in my windows database projects years ago. I believe this is just a tool that allows you to query the database. And in this case if it did not work I would use a different database application. When I used msde (basically 200 server with no client and a 2GB maximum database size) , I used ADO Query tool found here http://gpoulose.home.att.net/ John