>Hi,
>
>I have a weird one that's been bugging me for a couple days now and I cannot come up with a solution.
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>Client has 6 PCs. 4 running Windows XP , 1 on Windows 7 and one on Windows 8.1.
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>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.
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>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:
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>m.lnHandle = SQLSTRINGCONNECT(m.lcConnectionString,.T.) &&& 2nd parameter as .T., as the single-connection-per user, shared by remote views
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>always sets m.lnHandle to a negative number.
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>I have copied the file with the connection string from a working PC.
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>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.

What is the result from that:

m.lnHandle = SQLSTRINGCONNECT(m.lcConnectionString)
IF m.lnHandle < 0
   AERROR(laError)
   MessageBox(laError[1,2])
ENDIF