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Failing to Connect to VFP DBC via ODBC ASP
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From
31/05/2001 09:00:30
Gil Munk
The Scarborough Group, Inc.
Baltimore, Maryland, United States
 
 
To
19/05/2001 21:56:06
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Internet applications
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00509133
Message ID:
00513112
Views:
19
>>The connection fails when attempting to connect from the NT Server running the IIS to the VFP 6.0 database on different NT Server where the Data resides.
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>>The error message is "ODBC Visual Foxpro Driver cannot open file _____.dbc"
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>>The connection works fine if data is on the same server or We connect from a workstation running Win '98, but not from Server to server.

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>I assume that you tested your DSN (pressing the Test button) and that it works OK. Could it be that it is not finding the file or that it does not have rights to it or that it is opened exclusively?
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>Maybe you should post a sample of the code you are using to access it to see if we can see what's wrong.


Alex,
Turns out that several UT threads right around the time I posted this dealt with the same problem. Someone even had the MS web page detailing the exact problem (IIS server-to-server with ASP)
Thank You,
Gil Munk


"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, it expects what never was and never will be." - Thomas Jefferson
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