I was getting the login screen to but it stoped after i included the "Trusted_Connection=yes" on the connection tring.
I don't know if this is the correct awnser i hpe it helps.

Bernardo

>Even if I do an on error for error trapping, I still get the SQL Server login screens when the connection fails. I need the SQL login screens to not appear because the user is going to be able to enter the elements of the connection string. How do I prevent the screen from appearing?
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>Jim
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>>my string is like this:
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>>"DRIVER=SQL Server;SERVER=TECH03;UID=bdehoyos;APP=Microsoft Visual FoxPro;WSID=TECH03;DATABASE=testedi;Trusted_Connection=yes"
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>>by including UID , Trusted_Connection=yes and the database and server name on it i had no problems.
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>>btw some error traping might be good just to be sure .
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>>Bernardo.