Looks like you must've gotten a password protected mdb from your customer. If you have Access I would try to open it with MS Access, just to make sure this is the issue. If you can open it there, I would try enclosing the table name with brackets, given the spaces in the name.

If not, just ask for the password and add it to the connection string. If that's not an option check out the www.mvps.org website for the Access MVP's pages as I vaguely remember seeing a password utility there.

>Thanks for your response. I have reproduced the error...
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>Microsoft Visual FoxPro
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>Connectivity error: [Microsoft][ODBC Microsoft Access Driver] Record(s) cannot be read; no read permission on 'National Ancillary Data'.
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>OK
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>Apparently a permissions problem. This being a file we received from one of our clients, I am not sure I will be able to get around it. Any thoughts?
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>Thanks
>Vince