Hi,

I have a weird one that's been bugging me for a couple days now and I cannot come up with a solution.

Client has 6 PCs. 4 running Windows XP , 1 on Windows 7 and one on Windows 8.1.

I have installed my VFP app on all and all are able to connect to a SQL Server database on a server except 1 XP PC.

I can use the ODBC administrator to create a connection and test the connection successfully, but my application which uses a connection string and code like this:

m.lnHandle = SQLSTRINGCONNECT(m.lcConnectionString,.T.) &&& 2nd parameter as .T., as the single-connection-per user, shared by remote views

always sets m.lnHandle to a negative number.

I have copied the file with the connection string from a working PC.

I have created a very simple application which just tries to connect using the connection string and it fails too.

Does anyone have any ideas? In over 100 installs similar to this I have never been able to use ODBC admin successfully and not my code.