>>I just tried creating a DSN to one of my DBCs and got an "invalid database specification" message from the ODBC driver. I used the 6.0 driver, and tried both System DSN and User DSN. I can explisitly open the same DBC from the VFP command window with no problem. And Validate Database returns no errors.
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>>What's up?
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>Does it do this with any other DBC's in the DSN? Which driver did you use when you created the DSN? I seem to remember getting weird messages with any of the other drivers besides "Microsoft Visual FoxPro Driver v6.00"

Hi Paul,

Yeah, I confirmed it was the driver you mention. I am able to use the driver with a directory of free tables with no porblem. And I am able to use VFP with the "problem" DBC and all of its tables.

OK, I just tried it with another copy of this DBC on a network machine and it does accept the setup. So, there's something it doesn't like about my local copy -- but no hint of what. I'll try copying in the fileset from the network copy and see if the problem goes away. Strange.

-- Randy