Hi, I did some research on the Internet. I have still the same problem. I've downloaded the ZODBCDA product from zope.org . I read that this comes for Windows __only__, but someone has compiled it on UNIX system for use with SOLID..., don't know what he meant, but thought that the same source should run with little modification on linux. Searching for a ODBC driver/includes on linux I came to unixODBC.org . I've downloaded the sources and installed it like the INSTALL instructions told me. For MS Access Db you will need EasySoft ODBC-ODBC Brige from www.easysoft.com . This is not OpenSource, but for testing you get a 30-trial license. I attached a patch for ZODBCDA to use unixODBC . Maybe someone can tell me how I can connect from Zope to EasySoft ODBC-ODBC bridge Regards, Dirk diff -uNr ZODBCDA/src/Setup /tmp/lib/python/Products/ZODBCDA/src/Setup --- ZODBCDA/src/Setup Tue Oct 29 22:45:32 2002 +++ /tmp/lib/python/Products/ZODBCDA/src/Setup Wed Jan 6 20:20:06 1999 @@ -1,10 +1,7 @@ *shared* -# Use this for Linux unixODBC -sql sql.c -DOS_LINUX -L/usr/local/lib -lodbc -I/usr/local/include - # Use this for Solid -#sql sql.c -DSOLIDSQLAPI -I/usr/local/solid/include /usr/local/solid/lib/scllux22.a +sql sql.c -DSOLIDSQLAPI -I/usr/local/solid/include /usr/local/solid/lib/scllux22.a # Or maybe this for Solid 2.3, based ob feedback from Andrew Kuchling: #sql sql.c -DSOLIDSQLAPI -I/usr/local/solid/include -L/usr/local/solid/lib -lsolcli diff -uNr ZODBCDA/src/sql.c /tmp/lib/python/Products/ZODBCDA/src/sql.c --- ZODBCDA/src/sql.c Tue Oct 29 20:22:39 2002 +++ /tmp/lib/python/Products/ZODBCDA/src/sql.c Fri Jan 8 16:30:25 1999 @@ -585,11 +585,7 @@ } #else - -#if ! defined OS_LINUX #include <windows.h> -#endif /* ! defined OS_LINUX */ - #include "sql.h" #include "sqlext.h" #endif