Hi Sergey,

Nope, I was one digit off from my memorized ip address and the real one. It runs fine now.

Thanks
Jim


>The connection string looks correct to me and works fine if I replace your parameters with mine. Can you PING the server?
>
>>hello group,
>>
>>This doesn't work. Says that the server doesn't exists or I don't have access
>>neither are true.
>>
>>lcDSNLess="DRIVER={SQLServer};SERVER=255.255.255.64;UID=myuserid;";
>>pwd=mypassword;Network=DBMSSOCN;DATABASE=test;"
>>nhandle = sqlstringconnect(lcDSNLess)
>>
>>I can use a dsn connection with the ip address.
>>
>>Thank you
>>Jim