RDS should be turned off on the 2003 box, many of us will recommend you run a local copy of coldusion since it's free and use that as your testing system.
The developer installs coldfusion on his local computer and use that RDS password he creates for his local install to access the datasource. Of course this means you need to create a duplicate set of datasources in CF/Administrator but it's only a couple of minutes work so well worth it. Please note, the developer will need to be able to connect to your database from his machine to do this. There are other routes to go but if he can install that locally it's the quickest. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:254513 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4