>>>>>
>>>>>This is a Windows 2008 R2 64 bit server.
>>>>
>>>>(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
>>>>
>>>>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?
>>
>>
>>If it works with ODBCAD32.exe, I think vfp can handle that
>>
>>Can you specify a database in ODBCAD32.exe and see whether that is ok ?
>
>Gregory, so I got that User DSN created with the database. But I still cant get this to work in VFP. I think the driver parameter is wrong but I cannot find out what it should be. Is there a way to find it out via the MySQL Workbench program? The contractor installed that on the server and I have access to it. Seems to be MySQL version 5.1.73. But I cant find a driver description to use.


Try here, Jos - under 64 Bit Machine
It seems we need to point on MSDASQL for the (32 bit) ODBC driver to work on 64 bit machines.
https://www.connectionstrings.com/mysql-connector-odbc-5-1/