Folks - I'm now finding some interesting behavior with the ZODBC connection. I set up a connection and had no problems with it (requires DSN id password). I went back to it at a later point in time and it no longer worked. What changed? I'm running ZOPE 2.1.6 on NT4 sp4. I started out running ZOPE from the start.bat file. type start.bat "c:\zope\ZopeDIR\bin\python.exe" "c:\zope\ZopeDIR\z2.py" -D -w 80 -a 127.0.0.1 If I start ZOPE from the start.bat file, the ODBC connection works flawlessly (with my minor testing) If I start ZOPE as a service (HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\ZopeDIR\Parameters = "c:\zope\ZopeDIR\bin\python.exe" "c:\zope\ZopeDIR\z2.py" -S -D -w 80 -a 127.0.0.1) and then attempt to open the ODBC connection, I receive the following error Invalid connection string: DSN id password (changed for obvious reasons) Traceback (innermost last): File c:\zope\ZopeDIR\lib\python\ZPublisher\Publish.py, line 214, in publish_module File c:\zope\ZopeDIR\lib\python\ZPublisher\Publish.py, line 179, in publish File c:\zope\ZopeDIR\lib\python\Zope\__init__.py, line 202, in zpublisher_exception_hook (Object: RoleManager) File c:\zope\ZopeDIR\lib\python\ZPublisher\Publish.py, line 165, in publish File c:\zope\ZopeDIR\lib\python\ZPublisher\mapply.py, line 160, in mapply (Object: manage_open_connection) File c:\zope\ZopeDIR\lib\python\ZPublisher\Publish.py, line 102, in call_object (Object: manage_open_connection) File c:\zope\ZopeDIR\lib\python\Shared\DC\ZRDB\Connection.py, line 209, in manage_open_connection (Object: RoleManager) File c:\zope\ZopeDIR\lib\python\Shared\DC\ZRDB\Connection.py, line 227, in connect (Object: RoleManager) File c:\zope\ZopeDIR\lib\python\Products\ZODBCDA\db.py, line 155, in __init__ BadRequest: (see above) Has anyone experienced this before? Any thoughts? I much prefer running Zope as a service, but... TIA. - Steve __________________________________________________________________ Get your Private, Anti-Spam, Free Email at http://e3mil.com and Step into a Friendly Universe!