>I'm not too familiar with OLE, but it sounds like the datasource is pointing to 'localhost' rather than the IP or domain of your host machine. Again, that is just a thought for you.

That was what I thought too, so I ensured that it isn't. The datasource doesn't even exist on the local machine :) But even so, shouldn't it still pick up that data? Another interesting aside from your post: I'm using a UNC path to describe the data source to the oledb provider. Should I be using an IP instead?
Thanks for the reply,
jfh