The ASP doesn't run under your login but rather under IUSR_ or IWAM_ accounts. See http://west-wind.com/presentations/aspobjects/ASPObjects.htm for detailed explanation on how to run a VFP COM object from ASP.

>I am the user who created it! My connection to MSDE (does it make any difference that it is not SQL-Server?) is a trusted connection, so there is no userid or password involved.
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>Some more info. that may be relevant - I am testing the ASP page using IIS on my own laptop before installing it on the webserver. The calling url is http://localhost/mypage.asp, and the page can be found, but is displaying the error returned by COMRETURNERROR.
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>>You can create System DSN
>I deleted the user DSN and created a system DSN with the same name - no change.
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>>but I would suggest to use DSN-less connections with SQLSTRINGCONNECT.
>Tried that, and the results are the same, ie. returns a +ve handle number when called from within VFP, but returns -1 when called from the ASP page via. a .dll COM object.
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>The strings I have tried so far are...
> SQLCONNECT('MyODBCDataSource')
> SQLSTRINGCONNECT('Driver={SQL Server};Server=(local);Database=MyDatabase;')
> SQLSTRINGCONNECT('Driver={SQL Server};Server=(local);Database=MyDatabase;Trusted_Connection=yes')
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>My ODBC datasource name has the same as the main database, would that have any bearing?