Please accept my apologies....I figured out the problem. It occurred to me that I should try to add the DSN through the ODBC interface and am getting an error 31 message. Looks like I need to reinstall my data drivers, so the code is probably OK.

>I am using the following command to create a DSN to Microsoft Access Tables. This works wonderfully on all but a Windows 98SE laptop I have. The create fails and I have no explanation as to why. The version of the driver is identical between the laptop and my other test machines.
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>Here's the code:
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>lcString = "DSN=Fly_Ash Export" + chr(0) + ;
>	"DESCRIPTION=Fly Ash Export Data" + CHR(0) + ;
>	"DBQ=" + ALLTRIM(l_accessdb) + CHR(0) + ;
>	"DriverId=281" + CHR(0) + ;
>	"FIL=MS Access" + CHR(0) + ;
>	"MaxBufferSize=2048" + chr(0) + ;
>	"PageTimeout=5" + chr(0)
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>lnSuccess = SQLConfigDataSource(0, ODBC_ADD_DSN, "Microsoft Access Driver (*.mdb)", lcString)
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>this fails only on the one machine, but I have a similar envrionment to install this project to (and of course it's a week overdue already!) and really need the process as bullet-proof as possible.
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>Any troubleshooting ideas would be greatly appreciated!