>>>>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.
>>>
>>>What is the result from that:
>>>
>>>m.lnHandle = SQLSTRINGCONNECT(m.lcConnectionString)
>>>IF m.lnHandle < 0
>>> AERROR(laError)
>>> MessageBox(laError[1,2])
>>>ENDIF
>>>
>>
>>Boris,
>>
>>(it's deja vu all over again!) ;)
>>
>>I got it!
>>
>>It turns out they had McAfee running on this PC (which should not have been). I uninstalled it and can now connect, so I guess that must have had the firewall on and was blocking my program.
>
>You probably could've added your program to the exceptions list rather than simply turning off the antivirus/firewall.
Thanks, but McAfee was not supposed to be there so I needed to uninstall it anyhow.