Hi Greg, thanks for the response. The SQL server is an existing (separate) server that we have used for years. It has no problems talking to our other existing servers.
---------------------------------------- Return-Path: <listmas...@houseoffusion.com> Received: from mail.houseoffusion.com [64.118.74.225] by mail.clickculture.com with SMTP; Mon, 18 Jan 2010 10:06:32 -0500 Precedence: bulk Content-Type: text/plain References: <019b456fcdf044f3b115fea1d5658...@mail.clickculture.com> Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2010 10:06:21 -0500 Reply-To: cf-talk@houseoffusion.com Subject: Re: 64bit CF Server and System DSNs From: Greg Luce <luce...@gmail.com> To: cf-talk <cf-talk@houseoffusion.com> Message-ID: <7dbb50e31001180706v7721ba99q8f2d82357bbbb...@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-invURIBL-Scan: Scanned by invURIBL 3.1.0 on 1/18/2010 10:06:50 AM X-invURIBL-Weight: 0 X-invURIBL-Range: CLEAN X-Rcpt-To: <bo...@acoderslife.com> X-SmarterMail-Spam: SPF_None Bobby, I'm no sys admin, but I found on windows 7 64 bit that TCP/IP was disabled by default in MSSQL. Not sure if that helps, but it tripped me up for awhile and I've heard of others getting stuck on that. -- Greg Luce Luce Consulting Services, Inc. www.luceconsulting.net (863) 273-0289 On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 9:38 AM, Bobby Hartsfiled wrote: > > Normal > 0 > > false > false > false > > EN-US > X-NONE > X-NONE > > MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 > > We > are in the process of setting up a 64bit, multiserver configuration > ColdFusion > server. We have setup and tested multiserver configuration in the past but > that > was on 32bit. This is our first attempt at 64bit. > - Windows 64bit Server 2003 R2 > - CF 8 Enterprise 64 bit > > > > Some > parts of our application still contain legacy ASP code and we use System > DSNs > to allow that legacy code to talk to our databases. With 64bit, we are > receiving the following error anytime ASP attempts to talk to a system DSN. > > ADODB.Connection error '800a0ea9' > > Provider is not specified and there is no > designated default provider. > > /openadmin/_scripts/conn.inc, line 11 > > > > I > found a couple of different reasons and alleged solutions to this but have > still had no luck solving it. The first, and most common, explanation that > I've > found is that the MSDASQL.dll (provider for ODBC drivers) has no 64 bit > version > and that SQLOLEDB should be used instead. To use SQLOLEDB, the suggestion > was > to add the provider argument to your connection strings: > DSN=systemDSNName;UID=username;PWD=password; > Prodvider=SQLOLEDB; > > > > When > I try that, I receive a different error: > > > > Microsoft OLE DB Provider for SQL Server > error '80004005' > > Invalid connection string attribute > > /openadmin/_scripts/conn.inc, line 11 > > > > Another > solution was to use the connection string argument "Driver={SQL Server}" > instead of the provider. But when I try that, I get a completely different > error message: > > > > Microsoft OLE DB Provider for SQL Server > error '80004005' > > [DBNETLIB][ConnectionOpen (Connect()).]SQL > Server does not exist or access denied. > > /openadmin/_scripts/conn.inc, line 11 > > > > Another > solution, yet again, was to use the 32bit version of the ODBC Manager to > create > your system DSNs. I tried that as well with all of the same results. I also > tried setting IIS to run as a 32 bit application by setting > "Enable32BitAppOnWin64" to true but that resulted in a different error as > well: > > %1 > is not a valid Win32 application. > > I > also tried all of the same connection string changes from above while > running > at 32bit but there was no change in this error messages. > > As > you can see, I'm not having much luck. Has anyone else had this issue > before > > that might be able to offer some suggestions? > > Thanks > for any help you can offer. > > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:329753 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4