[thelist] DSN-less conundrum and a lost reference . . .

[Anthony Baratta]

At 02:26 PM 12/6/2001, you wrote:

>There was a thread here, I think, a few months back that addressed two points:
>a)  what permissions need to be requested from the server admin; and
>b)  if no server changes allowed, what needs to be done to get ASP page to 
>talk to an AccessXX database in the same - or child - directory on the web 
>server.

First off here an example connection string for DNS-Less....

DB_String = "Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data 
Source=driveletter:\full\path\and\file\name.mdb;"

Second: You need to give the Web Server full read/write to the file and the 
directory the file resides in.

HTH

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