>well, i seem to be having lots of problems with jetoledb drivers. i'm getting an error: "can't start application. the workgroup information file is missing or opened exclusively by another user." at this point, it doesn't look likely that i will be able to use anything other than odbc. however, according to the document, i should be able to use odbc. right now i'm thinking that i should look into re-installing the drivers? would that be msaccess or vb?

ODBC can access data without problems but some features are not accessible from it.

How do you connect to your database to have these messages?