On Thu, 2010-03-11 at 02:56 -0600, nithin wrote: > Thanks for the reply > > I updated the Ubuntu , still same issue. > > And one correction, it was my mistake that the error message I sent in previous post was not correct, I missed "/odbc/" The error message I got is: > [unixODBC][Driver Manager]Can't open lib '/usr/lib/odbc/libtdsodbc.so' file not found. > Never copy type - always cut 'n paste. There are fewer mistakes then. > The API SQLDriverConnect () is returned me that error message. > Do *both* the absolute path names in /etc/odbcinst.ini match the actual pathnames? Its quite possible the programmer was lazy and the error message is misleading. Double check and fix if needed. Are the access permissions suitable for the user that's being used to run the program? Checking and fixing this sort of thing may be foreign to a Windows user but its pretty much Linux 101.