Bill, Are you logged on with Administrator privileges?
Dennis McGrath --- Bill Downall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a brand new XP laptop, and have been installing software and > patches on it since Friday. I have a huge problem that has now > consumed > about 24 hours. Have any of you fount a similar problem? > > When I add a system data source through the Windows ODBC > Administrator, it never appears on the list, nor on the list of data > sources in > the Dev Studio workspace. (If I try to recreate the same one, I get a > prompt > that the name already exists, do I want to overwrite?) > > The data source is working. A running application can connect to it > and > query the data source. (Meanwhile, I can't do any development, > because I > cannot "see" the datasource from Dev Studio, or even from the ODBC > Administrator. It is not just an Oterro problem: I cannot see ANY > system data > source of Any kind in the ODBC Administrator list of System DSNs. > > I have R:Tango 5.0, which includes Developers Studio 5.0 and the > R:Base > Technologies' Oterro ODBC driver. > > I have installed MS MDAC 2.8, which includes the latest ODBC > Administrator > 3.525.1022.0. I had the problem before I installed that, and > installing it did > not fix the problem. > > I have tried MSKB article 285654 on the ListSystemDSNs registry key, > that's > not it, there is no such registry key in my registry. (I suspected > that one, > because i did install IIS on the laptop for testing.) >
