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>>This is a Windows 2008 R2 64 bit server.
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>(1) your connectionstring seems to be missing a semicolon after lcPassword
>(2) see whether you have the 3.5 drivers under 64 bit odbc
>(3) try to connect (set up a dsn) via 64 bit odbc
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>The connection string for 5.3 is different http://dev.mysql.com/doc/connector-odbc/en/connector-odbc-configuration-connection-without-dsn.html

Hi Gregory,

I ran the ODBCAD32.exe again and was just experimenting with different settings to see different error messages. I changed the port from the default 3306 to 3307 and voila it connected OK - "connection successful". So I have the right username/password and now the right port. So that works. But from VFP it does not. I keep getting a "Data source name not found and no default driver specified".

I have change the code to add the semi-colon after the password. And changed the MySQL driver name as per the example.

lcStringConn = "Driver={MySQL ODBC 5.3 Driver}"  + ";" + ;
               "Port="     + lcPort              + ";" + ;
               "Server="   + lcServer            + ";" + ;
               "Database=" + lcDatabase          + ";" + ;
               "Uid="      + lcUser              + ";" + ;
               "Pwd="      + lcPassWord          + ";" + ;
               "option=3"                        + ";"

But it still fails. Could it be a VFP/32bit vs. MySQL 64bit driver issue?