>I am passing all the necessary information. database, driver, ip address, username password, options. etc. but without the DSN being already set up. it pops.
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>Maybe, the only way to program this. (for installs) is to have vfp make a dsn... I have seen somwhere how to do this.. but forget where.
>Thanks Greigore.
>Bob Lee


I do have an ODBC_DSN class in the downloads section here that can be used to create DSN programmatically. It does much more than that and comes with ample comments and examples.