>>>When you connect using SQL*Plus, you are askied for UserName, Password and Host String. It is this Host String that you need to be connecting with thru VFP. If using an ODBC DSN, this is the Server entry.
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>>the dialogue box presents me with the 3 usual things to fill out:
>>USERNAME
>>PASSWORD
>>SERVER DO I repsond with anything different than I do with sqlplus?
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>Nope. All the same. How are you connecting? SQLConnect? SQLStringConnect? Remote View? Do you have a connection in the DBC

I think I found the mistake. Problem on the 3rd line of connect dialogue, I was putting in the name of my server rather than the name of the database. Then I connected!
Thanks again