On Mon, 2009-11-09 at 11:44 -0600, spedgenius wrote: > yes i did. I probably spent all day yesterday trying to figure out > what the problem was but i have found anything that makes a > differenece. I have tried emulating every different available win > version from win98 to win2008. unfortunatly this is proprietary > software so I have no insight into the inner workings of it. > In a Windows environment you have to use an ODBC Manager to set up an ODBC Data Source definition for your database before it can be used. Then you configure the application to use the Data Source. This causes the ODBC driver to read the correct Data Source when you start the application. Install a Windows ODBC Manager if you haven't already done so, and use it to define your ODBC Data Source. Then configure your application to use that Data Source and start it. Martin