James,

I have not had this same scenario, but I'll shoot from the hip. :)

I think that you probably did not un-check the option to save the data with the report, located under the File menu option. This way, it appears that the report works because it is using the data that is embedded in the report.

Your problem is probably related to malconfigured ODBC settings. Go to the Control Panels, under Administrative Tools, and verify that they are setup properly.

Doug

>Hi All,
>
>I'm new to Crystal Reports and ODBC and am having trouble getting things to work properly.
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>I can load CR, create a report, and preview the report data initially. If I click the refresh button I get two error messages.
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>1. ODBC error: [Microsoft][ODBC Visual FoxPro Driver]File 'master.dbf' does not exist.
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>I click the "OK" button and then this error.
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>2. Error detected by database DLL.
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>This happens only when I click the refresh button???? I'm always able to create the report initially, whether using data on my local machine or data on our server, just can't view refreshed data???
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>My local machine's ODBC Data Source Administrator shows Visual FoxPro Database and Tables drivers in the "User DSN" tab under "User Data Sources"
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>My pc is a windows 2000 computer.
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>I really don't know anything yet about the ODBC, never had any experience, but I want to find out so I can use the CR in my application.
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>I want to create reports on my local pc for my users to use in my application which resides on our server.
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>Any help would really be appreciated.
>
>TIA
>
>Jim Harvey
>jharvey@netrax.net