I am taken for a loss. I am working on a Microsoft XP workstation that is running IIS and am able to access the remote database from my machine in from any other application. I am running it off my machine while I'm testing the web page and was planning on moving it off to our web server later. The id that i'm running under is the administrator of the domain. When I log onto my machine, it automatically authenticates on the Novell server on which the data resides. You can see why I've been driving myself nuts over this.