Sergey & Cetin,

Thanks for your quick reply to my posting. It looks like UDL files are what I am looking for.

I am surprised that there is not a control panel item for creating UDL files. Seems to me that the method suggested by MS is kind of cludgy: "right click in Windows Explorer...Select New...Text file. Then rename it to .UDL, and then double click on that file." I'm supposed to instruct my customers to do that??

That leads to a follow-up question: How to organize UDL files. With ODBC, Microosft had a strategy to store those data source links in a common place in the registry. Do you know if MS has any strategy for organizing UDL files? Like a standard Data Sources folder? OR registry entry?

Thanks again for your help.

Jim