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Topic: Data Source Name not Found
Posted By: DanMcc
Subject: Data Source Name not Found
Date Posted: 27 December 2003 at 1:16pm

Hi - I'm just getting started with WWiz - please bear with me as I try to get things working.  First, I changed the two common.asp files to use a DSN and I changed the location of the wwforum.mdb to /fpdb/wwforum.mdb  (you guessed it - I'm using FP 2003)

I put a link to default.asp on a new page on my site..

I get the error message

Microsoft OLE DB Provider for ODBC Drivers error '80004005'

[Microsoft][ODBC Driver Manager] Data source name not found and no default driver specified

/forum/common.asp, line 249

I didn't change anything on that line.

You can try yourself at

http://www.jurassicpork.com/forum/default.asp - http://www.jurassicpork.com/forum/default.asp

thanks in advance,

dan

 




Replies:
Posted By: weppos
Date Posted: 27 December 2003 at 1:30pm
Make sure you've typed the right path to your database folder.


Posted By: michael
Date Posted: 27 December 2003 at 1:31pm
Did you setup the DSN on the server itself? It is not enough to specify a DSN if you use it, you also need to create a preferrably Machine DSN on the webserver computer. You might want to try not using DSN as it may prove better performance.

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Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 27 December 2003 at 1:36pm
In test I've done the forum certainly performs allot faster using the DSN-less connection it comes with and with much less problems.

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Posted By: DanMcc
Date Posted: 27 December 2003 at 2:13pm

To everyone, my bad on not removing a quote for the DSN line, I now have it running - now the real fun starts

Happy new year, I'm sure I'll be back soon....

 

dan




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