I'll pass that along, thanks! On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 11:15 AM, Robert Houben <robert.hou...@fwic.net>wrote:
> It is possible that this is a permissions problem. Try the following: > > - Disable UAC and rerun the app. > - Disable UAC and run the app as Administrator. > > If that still doesn't work, then I'm out of rabbits, or need a closer look > at the hat. > > If either one works, then you have hit a UAC problem. Note that a normal > user cannot write to the Program Files directory (plus other places) under > Windows 7/2008 server environment. Lots of older apps required you to do > this, and will break when ported, unless you run with elevated privileges. > You may wish to check if UPS has an updated version of their app for > Windows 7/x64. > > I have a number of things I do on my Win7/x64 system that require me to run > as Administrator with UAC turned off. It simply won't work otherwise. > > Good luck! > > -----Original Message----- > From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto: > u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Kevin King > Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2011 9:50 AM > To: U2 Users List > Subject: [U2] Unidata 6.1 connecting to UPS Worldship on Win7/64 > > I have a customer setting up a Win7/64 box for UPS Worldship. Previously > they had a XP/32 box in that same place running an earlier version of the WS > solution. They've installed the Unidata ODBC driver (which is 32-bit) and > have configured it, and have tested it successfully using Excel. (By > "tested successfully" they've proven they can read information from Unidata > into Excel via ODBC.) > > In the UPS Worldship application, when they try to setup the ODBC > connection to read from Unidata, WS shows the configured connector for > Unidata in the ODBC data sources. That's positive. When they select that > source and enter user ID and password, the little Windows blue circle > (waiting indicator) hangs out for a half second, and then ... it disappears > as if nothing has happened. At this point we would expect it to go to the > screen where the specifics of the ODBC connection can be configured, but it > never goes there. > We've checked a couple of user IDs and passwords, so there's very little > chance that the wrong user ID and/or password has been entered. > > As the Unidata connector seems to work under Excel, I'm thinking the > problem is a bug in the Worldship application, but I figured that maybe > someone here might have seen this and have some ideas other than "call UPS"? > > -Kevin > http://www.PrecisOnline.com > _______________________________________________ > U2-Users mailing list > U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org > http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users > _______________________________________________ > U2-Users mailing list > U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org > http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users > -- -Kevin http://www.PrecisOnline.com _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
