[AccessD] DSNs

MartyConnelly martyconnelly at shaw.ca
Wed Jul 18 14:15:37 CDT 2007


I believe you can bring up that wizard from VBA code
but it has been 5 years since I last looked. Saw it done via VB6.

jwcolby wrote:

>That was it.  And it comes with a little wizard for manually editing the
>file.  Cool. 
>
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>John W. Colby
>Colby Consulting
>www.ColbyConsulting.com 
>-----Original Message-----
>From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
>[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Charlotte Foust
>Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2007 1:07 PM
>To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
>Subject: Re: [AccessD] DSNs
>
>The path on XP is >Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Data Sources
>(ODBC)
>
>Charlotte 
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
>[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of jwcolby
>Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2007 10:01 AM
>To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'
>Subject: Re: [AccessD] DSNs
>
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>>Hopefully I'm not being condescending.
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>Not at all.  I don't know this stuff
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>>Control Panel > Data Sources (ODBC)
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>I don't have that.  Windows XP Profession SP2
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>>HKLM\Software\ODBC\ODBC.INI
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>I don't understand this one.  Is this a directory path?  A registry key?
>
>John W. Colby
>Colby Consulting
>www.ColbyConsulting.com
>-----Original Message-----
>From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
>[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Bruce H.
>Johnson
>Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2007 12:48 PM
>To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'
>Subject: Re: [AccessD] DSNs
>
>Hopefully I'm not being condescending.
>
>If this is for your machine only:
>
>Control Panel > Data Sources (ODBC)
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>If you need it programmable:
>HKLM\Software\ODBC\ODBC.INI
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>HTH 
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Marty Connelly
Victoria, B.C.
Canada




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