Could there be a file permissions issue? I'm not up on NT file permissions, but maybe the text file just has the wrong permissons. Anyway, I'd just go directly to one of your DB2 databases. I often have trouble getting those Jet drivers working right on the fly, but I never had a problem with SQLAnywhere.

That is why I stated that I was logged on as a local Admin. I've essentially got 'root' access. (Ya know, same thing ... only different ;-) I'm already trying to go directly to DB2 through ODBC since it looked like I was getting stuck somewhere in the ODBC Text Drivers. I ran a trace and was seeing stupid errors about unsupported this and that and the other thing .... Someone suggested that I try doing all of this going to an MSAccess DB (Choke) which I did and glory be!, it worked ... go figure. So I know that what I am doing is at least not out in left field. Of course, since nothing is ever easy, I am having fun now with the DB2 ODBC drivers. Even just trying to create an ODBC Connection gives me the following error. Invalid connection string: SAMPLE Traceback (innermost last): File D:\PROGRA~1\GYNZER~1\lib\python\ZPublisher\Publish.py, line 214, in publish_module File D:\PROGRA~1\GYNZER~1\lib\python\ZPublisher\Publish.py, line 179, in publish File D:\PROGRA~1\GYNZER~1\lib\python\Zope\__init__.py, line 201, in zpublisher_exception_hook (Object: RoleManager) File D:\PROGRA~1\GYNZER~1\lib\python\ZPublisher\Publish.py, line 165, in publish File D:\PROGRA~1\GYNZER~1\lib\python\ZPublisher\mapply.py, line 160, in mapply (Object: manage_edit) File D:\PROGRA~1\GYNZER~1\lib\python\ZPublisher\Publish.py, line 102, in call_object (Object: manage_edit) File D:\PROGRA~1\GYNZER~1\lib\python\Shared\DC\ZRDB\Connection.py, line 159, in manage_edit (Object: RoleManager) File D:\PROGRA~1\GYNZER~1\lib\python\Shared\DC\ZRDB\Connection.py, line 153, in edit (Object: RoleManager) File D:\PROGRA~1\GYNZER~1\lib\python\Shared\DC\ZRDB\Connection.py, line 197, in connect (Object: RoleManager) File D:\Program Files\GynzerWebSite\lib\python\Products\ZODBCDA\db.py, line 155, in __init__ BadRequest: (see above) So now my question to everyone interested is, "Where does a newbie get pointed to in order to start figuring out how to debug this for a new ODBC driver (since we all know that these things are SO standard)(tic)"? Thanks for everyones assistance in getting me this far. Some of you showed that I am really stupid while others of you confirmed that I am not yet insane.

Cold Fusion requires the ODBC datasource to be set up as a "system" datasource. The ODBC default, however, is a "user" datasource. Maybe on NT Zope needs to see a system rather than a user odbc datasource. You can test that out easily.

Good suggestion, this was one of the first things that I tried out. Same result both ways so I didn't mention it. I'm leaving it on 'system'.