At 09:00 AM 11/02/2005 -0500, you wrote:

>I had a similar problem - the message seems to be a catch-all. Try putting
>the pathname in the db string:
>e.g., connect '\\machine\c\temp\scg2.ibp';
>
>in my case, the problem was that I wasn't truly local, I was using a remote
>desktop to get to the local machine. Oddly enough, ODBC got exactly the same
>error until I made the database folder a network share.

Ach!! don't do that!

./heLen